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Pulmonary adenocarcinoma with heterotopic bone formation
H Hara1, K Iwabuchi, J Shinada
1Departments of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
Pathology International
|December 7, 2000
Abstract:
Adenocarcinoma of the lung is a common malignancy. Frequently, this tumor can cause calcification within a primary tumor. However, an extremely rare occurrence in lung carcinomas is ossification within a primary tumor, and to our knowledge only three cases have been reported. We report a case of pulmonary adenocarcinoma with ossification, and discuss the pathogenesis of intratumoral ossification with a review of the literature.