Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lungs - Histopathology

Pulmonary small cell carcinoma - histopathology
- oat cell carcinoma
- poorly differentiated neuroendocrine cells
- associated with smoking
- typically central location
- paraneoplastic syndromes
- treated with chemotherapy
Histology:
- relatively small cells, salt and pepper chromatin, stippled chromatin, high nuclear to cytoplasmic ratio, scant basophilic cytoplasm, high mitotic activity, necrosis

Slides for the practical part of the pathology exam at Masaryk University

http://atlases.muni.cz/atlases..../stud/atl_en/main+pr

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