Pulmonary carcinoid with papillary structure: Report of a case with fine-needle aspiration cytology

✍ Scribed by Hilary Evans; Ronald Blaney

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 275 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 8755-1039
• DOI: 10.1002/dc.2840110214

✦ Synopsis

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of a peripheral lung mass in a 44-yrold man revealed apapillary tumor. Histologic examination of the mass, removed by lobectomy, demonstrated a pulmonary carcinoid tumor with papillary structure. Most papillary tumors of the lung are malignant. Pulmonary carcinoid and pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma-benign tumors-have papillary variants. Both have been described in jine-needle aspiration specimens and should be included in the drflerential diagnosis of papillary lung tumors. The cytologic features of pulmonary carcinoid are described.