Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma of the lung: A rare tumour with a rare clinical presentation

Lung Cancer

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-111

  Cakir, Ebru ^a   Demirag, Funda ^a   Ucoluk, Gulnur Onde ^a   Kaya, Sadi ^a   Memis, Leyla ^b  

^a Ataturk Chest Disease and Thoracic Surgery Education and Research Hospital Ankara   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma; Female; Young age

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG CARCINOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249660514     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2007.01.021     Document Type: Article

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