RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Well differentiated fetal adenocarcinoma of the lung in a 29 year old woman
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 478
OP 479
DO 10.1136/jcp.56.6.478
VO 56
IS 6
A1 K M Sheehan
A1 J Curran
A1 E W Kay
A1 P Broe
A1 A Grace
YR 2003
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/56/6/478.abstract
AB This report describes a case of well differentiated fetal adenocarcinoma of the lung in a 29 year old female smoker. The histological pattern and immunohistochemical profile were consistent with well differentiated fetal adenocarcinoma and the patient made an uneventful postoperative recovery with no recurrence after 18 months. This neoplasm is a rare lung tumour that is composed of glycogen rich neoplastic glands and tubules that resembles fetal lung at 10 to 15 weeks of gestation. It is important to identify this rare variant of adenocarcinoma because it is a low grade malignancy with low associated mortality.