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Diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia (DIPNECH).
Seminars in diagnostic pathology - 1 Nov 2015
Marchevsky Alberto M, Walts Ann E
Abstract excerpt
Diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia (DIPNECH) is a pre-invasive generalized proliferation of pulmonary neuroendocrine (PNE) cells, which has been described in combination with carcinoid tumorlets, obliterative bronchiolitis, and other fibrotic lung changes. Since its first recognition as a distinct syndrome in 1992, variable clinico-pathologic features have been used to diagnose DIPNECH...
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