Pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma: a clinicopathologic study and prognostic analysis of 51 cases

• Published in: World journal of surgical oncology Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 252
• Main Authors: Huang, Si-Yuan, Shen, Shu-Jing, Li, Xing-Ya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 02.10.2013; BioMed Central
• Subjects: Adjuvant treatment; Adult; Age; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Analysis; Cancer; Cancer therapies; Carcinoma; Carcinosarcoma - mortality; Carcinosarcoma - pathology; Carcinosarcoma - surgery; Care and treatment; Chemotherapy; Confidence intervals; Diagnosis; Epidermal growth factor; Female; Females; Follow-Up Studies; Hospitals; Humans; Lung cancer; Lung Neoplasms - mortality; Lung Neoplasms - pathology; Lung Neoplasms - surgery; Male; Medical research; Medicine, Experimental; Methods; Middle Aged; Multivariate analysis; Neoplasm Staging; Prognosis; Retrospective Studies; Statistical methods; Studies; Surgery; Survival analysis; Survival Rate; Tomography; Tumor staging; China

Pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma is a diagnostically challenging group of tumors. It's a rare histologic subtype of non-small cell lung cancer.There are five subgroups of pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma, they are identified as pleomorphic carcinoma, spindle cell carcinoma, giant cell carcinoma,...