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Clinical Application of Next-generation Sequencing for the Diagnosis of Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Is It Primary or Secondary?
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 15 May 2020
Aizawa Hiroaki, Karasaki Takahiro, Nagayama Kazuhiro, Shinozaki-Ushiku Aya, Aburatani Hiroyuki, Mano Hiroyuki, Nakajima Jun
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An 80-year-old man with a history of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) was referred to our department for a solitary lung nodule. The nodule was surgically resected and diagnosed as SCC. Because the lung lesion and a previous skin lesion showed similar histological findings, the origin of the lung tumor was uncertain. Next-generation sequencing using a targeted driver oncogene panel was applied for the...
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