title: [Bronchopulmonary carcinoids: neoplasms with attenuated malignancy or true and proper malignant tumors?].
abstract: The authors, in reporting their series of 6 bronchopulmonary carcinoids, dwell upon the criteria used to classify such neoplasms pointing out the related diagnostic problems. The presence of metastases and/or local recurrences as well as the impossibility to define the aggressiveness of the tumor brought the authors to consider such tumors as malignant. They conclude for a surgical approach which should be conservative: segmentectomy and lobectomy in elective procedures, whereas pneumonectomy and endoscopic resection should be reserved to particular cases.
authors.affiliation: Cattedra di Chirurgia D'Urgenza, Università degli Studi G. D'Annunzio, Chieti.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bruzzese
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pasquino
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stella
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy
vernacular_title: Carcinoidi broncopolmonari: neoplasie a malignità attenuata o veri e propri tumori maligni?