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Pulmonary large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma: its place in the spectrum of pulmonary carcinoma.
The Annals of thoracic surgery - 1 Aug 2007
Iyoda Akira, Hiroshima Kenzo, Nakatani Yukio, Fujisawa Takehiko
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In 1999, the World Health Organization categorized large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) as a variant of large cell carcinoma. The World Health Organization categorization not only classified histologic types of large cell carcinomas of the lung in detail, but also revealed that histologic subtypes of lung carcinomas were closely related to the prognosis of patients with those carcinomas. Large cell...
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