Schmitz N, Quoix E, Gasser B, Popin E, Pauli G
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg.
Rev Pneumol Clin. 1997;53(3):159-61.
The authors report the case of a patient with a pancreatic carcinoma who developed lung metastases mimicking a diffuse bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma. Such features have already been described mostly with carcinomas of the digestive tract but also with breast, and head and neck carcinoma. Macroscopically and microscopically there is no difference between these lung metastases and a primitive bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma. Identification of a surfactant protein might identify a primitive bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma.
