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PRIMARY SMALL CELL CARCINOMA OF THE PLEURAE (A CASE REPORT AND THE MORPHOMETRIC STUDY) 

Article type: Other

Authors: Slodkowska, Janina | Wiatr, Elzbieta | Kayser, Klaus | Radomski, Piotr | Bestry, Iwona

Affiliations: Dept. of Quantitative Pathology, the Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland | III Dept. of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, the Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland | Radiology Dept. the Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland | Dept. of Pathology, Thoraxklinik, Heidelberg, Germany

Keywords: small cell carcinoma, pleura, nuclear diameter

Journal: Electronic Journal of Pathology and Histology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 05-05, 2001

Received 1 September 2001
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Accepted 1 September 2001
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Published: 2001
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Abstract

The authors report a case (the second in the literature) of the primary pleural small cell carcinoma [pSCC]. The clinical and radiological presentation of the tumour was very suggestive of malignant mesothelioma. The comparative morphometric studies of the nuclear diameters in the cell population of pSCC and 3 resected lung small cell carcinoma [lSCC] showed that the former was composed of the higher number of larger cells than the latter one. The average nuclear diameter of pSCC was 9,4± 1,2m m and for lSCC was 8,54± 0,98m m. The 25th and 75th percentiles of pSCC were 8,74 and 10,15 but for lSCC were 7,7 and 9,2, respectively.