Advances in lung adenocarcinoma classification: A summary of the new international multidisciplinary classification system (IASLC/ATS/ERS)

Journal of Thoracic Disease

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages S489-S501

  Tang, Elizabeth R ^a   Schreiner, Andrew M ^b   Pua, Bradley B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Classification; Lung neoplasms; Pathology; Radiology

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA IN SITU; ARCHITECTURAL GRADING; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLOID ADENOCARCINOMA; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EGFR GENE; ENTERIC ADENOCARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LUNG CANCER AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOCIETY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; INVASIVE ADENOCARCINOMA; INVASIVE MUCINOUS ADENOCARCINOMA; LEPIDIC PREDOMINANT ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG BIOPSY; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE ADENOCARCINOMA; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; ONCOGENE K RAS; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHENOTYPE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SMALL BIOPSY; TUMOR INVASION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85016825848     PISSN: 20721439     EISSN: 20776624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.09.12     Document Type: Review

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