Author/Editor		Carvalho, Lina
Title		Mucoepidermoid carcinoma and adenosquamous carcinoma
Type		članek
Source		In: Vizjak A, Ferluga D, Bussolati G, editors. Update in pathology. Proceedings of the 19th European congress of pathology: nephropathology pre-congress meeting advances in nephrology, pulmonary pathology pre-congress meeting; 2003 Sep 6-11; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: Faculty of medicine,
Publication year		2003
Volume		str. 351-3
Language		eng
Abstract		Mucoepidermoid carcinoma is a rare carcinoma in the lung and has the same histological patterns as described in salivary glands; it compromises younger patients and develops in the bronchial glands allowing an easy diagnosis in biopsies in low grade cases. Adenosquamous carcinoma is a mixed carcinoma with different ways of showing the two histological patterns that can be not clearly distinct; antikeratins antibodies are useful to identify adenocarcinomatous and epidermoid cells and genetic studies are showing a common cell for both patterns; it can develop in the bronchi but is clearly preponderant in the periphery of the lung. Adenosquamous carcinoma is not a rare carcinoma in the lung, with the main incidence in man 10:1 and compromising upper lobes preferentially.
Descriptors		LUNG NEOPLASMS CARCINOMA, MUCOEPIDERMOID CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS