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Collision tumor versus multiphenotypic differentiation: a case of carcinoma with features of colonic and lung primary tumors.
Anticancer research - 1 May 2009
Murthaiah Pradeep, Truskinovsky Alexander M, Shah Saira, Dudek Arkadiusz Z
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BACKGROUND: Collision tumors are rare tumors composed of two histologically distinct neoplasms coinciding at the same location. Collision tumors need to be distinguished from tumors originating from a progenitor cell with potential for multiphenotypic differentiation. CASE REPORT: A clinically puzzling case of an intricate malignant pulmonary nodule in a patient with previous history of colorectal carcinoma is...
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