NOUN
- highly malignant carcinoma composed of small round or egg-shaped cells with little cytoplasm; lung cancers are frequently oat cell carcinomas
How To Use small cell carcinoma In A Sentence
- This becomes especially important when there is limited biopsy material from a distant metastasis that shows a small cell carcinoma and a colonic biopsy specimen that reveals a villous adenoma.
- The histogenesis of small cell carcinoma of ovary is unknown.
- Small cell carcinomas are mainly misdiagnosed as other small round cell tumors (eg, neuroblastoma, Ewing sarcoma, embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, lymphoma).
- The current names used for this group of tumors are tumorlets, carcinoids, atypical carcinoids, large cell carcinomas with neuroendocrine features, and small cell carcinomas.
- However, malignant tumors such as poorly differentiated carcinoma, small cell carcinoma, large cell carcinoma, and atypical carcinoid may have potential to grow, leading to pleural carcinomatosis.
- It is also found in thyroid carcinomas and small cell carcinomas of nonpulmonary origin.
- Transbronchial biopsies and brushings returned positive for non-small cell carcinoma.
- The histologic repartition of the invasive carcinomas were as follows: 10 squamous cell, 9 adenocarcinomas, 5 large cell carcinomas, and 6 non-small cell carcinomas.
- Advanced stage non-small cell carcinomas and small cell carcinomas are treated by systemic chemotherapy.
- Histopathologically, there were 25 cases of primary bronchogenic carcinoma; among them, there were 5 cases of recurrence of small cell carcinoma after chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy.
