Diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia: A report of two cases: Letter to the Editor

Pathology International

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 538-541

  Lim, Cathy ^a   Stanford, Dorota ^a   Young, Iven ^a   McCaughan, Brian ^a   Cooper, Wendy ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; BRONCHIECTASIS; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIFFUSE IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY NEUROENDOCRINE CELL HYPERPLASIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LETTER; LOBECTOMY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LESION; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MICROSCOPY; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; PERIPHERAL CARCINOID TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; COMPLICATION; HYPERPLASIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PRECANCER; SMOKING;

AGED; CARCINOID TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOCRINE CELLS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; SMOKING;

EID: 77953338611     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2010.02552.x     Document Type: Letter

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