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Molecular discrimination of multiple primary versus metastatic squamous cell cancers of the head/neck and lung.
Experimental and molecular pathology - 1 Feb 2009
Mercer Robyn R, Lucas Natalie C, Simmons Alicia N, Zander Dani S, Tsongalis Gregory J, Funkhouser William K, Coleman William B
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Patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SqCa) arising in the head and neck (H/N) commonly develop solitary pulmonary metastases that mimic the clinical, radiographic, and pathologic presentation of new primary lung SqCa. Primary pulmonary and metastatic SqCas cannot be differentiated from each other histologically. However, distinguishing multiple independent primary neoplasms from a primary H/N SqCa with...
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