Mucinous (so-called colloid) carcinoma of the lung.

I read with interest the report of mucinous (so-called colloid) carcinoma of the lung by Dr. Rossi and colleagues (Am J Surg Pathol Vol. 28, April 2004). They attribute the first reported case of what was probably a mucinous cystadenoma of lung to Gowar in 1978, and note subsequent reports of mucinous or colloid carcinomas of lung. In fact, I believe the first report of primary mucinous (gelatinous) carcinoma of lung was in a chapter on the pathology of lung cancer that I wrote for the book “Lung Cancer” edited by William L. Watson, then Chief of the Thoracic Surgical Service of Memorial Hospital for Cancer in New York City. The exact reference is in Chapter 3, “Pathology,” pp. 70–72, and the gelatinous lung cancer is illustrated in a gross photograph and histology in Figures 3– 24A, B, C. The book was published by C.V. Mosby Company in 1968, 10 years before the publication by Gowar.