[Pleomorphic carcinoma; report of a case].
We experienced a case of pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma. This patient was a 67-year-old male and was admitted because of an abnormal lung shadow on chest X-ray. Transbronchial biopsy was performed to the polypoid lesion of the left B10, however dignosis was not confirmed. For the shadow was strongly suspisious for lung carcinoma left lower lobectomy was performed. The resected tumor was composed of spindle cell component and basaloid squamous cell carcinoma component indicating unusual pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma. Seventeen months after operation the patient is alive without any sign of recurrence.
Department of Respiratory Surgery, Okazaki Municipal Hospital, Okazaki, Japan.
Seijirou
S
Niimi
Bin
B
Satou
Mineo
M
Asaoka
D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male