[Complex pulmonary tumor: pneumoblastoma. A case study (author's transl)]

Sem Hop. 1980 Feb;56(5-6):268-71.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The authors report a new case of pneumoblastoma concerning a 63 years old man who dies with hepatitic insufficiency and massive metastasis. The study in optic and electronic microscopy shows the three cellular contingents which form the pneumoblastoma: clusters of indifferenciated cells, spindle cells and cubic or cylinder epithelial cells, with few secretory granules and microvilli which form tubes or lobules. All the features show clearly a blastematous character very similar to a foetal lung which allows to differenciate the pneumoblastoma from carcinosarcoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Carcinosarcoma / diagnosis
  • Carcinosarcoma / pathology*
  • Carcinosarcoma / ultrastructure
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Lung Neoplasms / ultrastructure
  • Male
  • Middle Aged