## Abstract ## BACKGROUND: Normal adult lungs contain pulmonary neuroendocrine cells (PNECs). PNEC hyperplasia may be either reactive or idiopathic, and the idiopathic type is defined as diffuse idiopathic PNEC hyperplasia (DIPNECH). It is believed that DIPNECH is a neuroendocrine proliferative pr
Large cell neuroendocrine tumors of the lung clinical significance and histopathologic definition
โ Scribed by M. Elizabeth Hammond; William T. Sause
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 783 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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