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Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung historical perspective
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Sarcomatoid carcinoma is a rare type of malignant tumor. The name sarcomatoid carcinoma was first described by Virchow in 1865 as a “biphasic” lesion of adenocarcinomatous or squamous cell carcinoma with spindle cell or giant cell component.
Historical Perspective
Historical Perspective
Sarcomatoid carcinoma is a rare type of malignant tumor. The name sarcomatoid carcinoma was first described by Virchow in 1865 as a “biphasic” lesion of adenocarcinomatous or squamous cell carcinoma with spindle cell or giant cell component.
Discovery
- Sarcomatoid carcinoma was first described by Virchow in 1865 as a “biphasic” lesion of adenocarcinomatous or squamous cell carcinoma with spindle cell or giant cell component.[1]
- In 1981, World Health Organization (WHO) classification on lung cancers, mentioned pleomorphic carcinomas showing a prevalence of spindle or giant cells as morphologic variants of squamous cell carcinomas and large-cell carcinomas, respectively, and defined carcinosarcomas as biphasic tumors consisting of an intimate admixture of carcinoma and sarcoma.[2]
References
References
- ↑ Virchow, Rudolf (1863). Die KRANKHAFTEN GESCHWÜLSTE. 2. Retrieved 1864. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ Sobin LH (1981). “The international histological classification of tumours”. Bull. World Health Organ. 59 (6): 813–9. PMC 2396133. PMID 6978190.
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