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KMID : 0364019960290091036
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Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
1996 Volume.29 No. 9 p.1036 ~ p.1039
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Primary Pulmonary Carcinosarcoma -A Case of Report-
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안상구
김재영/고정관/박형주/이철세/김댕중
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Abstract
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Pulmonary carcinosarcomas are rare malignant tumors consisting of an admixture of epithelial and mesenchymal elements of the type ordinarily seen in malignancies of adults. Compared with all pulmonary neoplasms it occurs with a frequency. Of 0.3%
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has a strong association with smoking. Carcinosarcomas be divided into two clinicopathologic groups based on the loction of the lung: a solid parenchymal type and a central or endobronchial lesion. Noninvasive diagnostic tests have a rather low
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detecting carcinosarcoma. The most frequent metastatic sites are hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes. Surgical resection is both diagnostic and the initial treatment. The prognosis is poor and average postoperative survival is 9 months.
We report one case of pulmonary carcinosarcoma demonstrated by immunohistochemical staining in a 61 year old male patient with a review of literatures.
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