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Immunohistochemical analysis of lung carcinomas with pure or partial bronchioloalveolar differentiation.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine - 1 Apr 2004
Sarantopoulos G Peter, Gui Dorina, Shintaku Peter, Hong Longshen, Wang Ya-Ying, Yap Cecilia S, Fishbein Michael C
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CONTEXT: In 1999, the World Health Organization redefined bronchioloalveolar carcinomas (BACs) as those neoplasms with only a pure lepidic growth pattern and no invasion. OBJECTIVES: The present study examined 45 lung cancers with a BAC component (1) to determine whether these tumors would be classified as BACs by current World Health Organization standards, (2) to quantitate the BAC component within these...
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