title: Synchronous triple carcinoma of the lung in one patient.
abstract: A case is reported of the simultaneous occurrence of a squamous cell carcinoma and a small cell carcinoma, both centrally located, in the right upper lobe and a peripheral adenocarcinoma in the right lower lobe. The simultaneous occurrence of three primary lung carcinomas is discussed in the light of a probable common cell origin.
authors.affiliation: Divisioni di Anatomia Patologica e Citologia, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milano, Italia.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Badiali
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alloisio
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lombardi
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*