OBJECTIVE To determine whether bronchioalveolar carcinoma is related to tobacco use. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING 11 teaching hospitals of Chicago, Long Island, New York, and Philadelphia, 1977-89. SUBJECTS 87 patients with histologically diagnosed bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (cases) and 286 non-cancer and 297 cancer patients matched to cases on age, sex, race, hospital, and date o...

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The aim of the present study was to investigate the appearance of bronchioloalveolar lung carcinoma on computed tomography (CT) scans, and to determine the frequency of signs suggestive of this diagnosis. CT features of 42 cases with pathologically proven bronchioloalveolar carcinoma were retrospectively analysed for pattern, size, location and secondary signs suggesting the diagnosis. Bronchio...

A bronchioloalveolar carcinoma presented as a large cavitatory lesion with an irregular lining in a 28 year old man.

Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma remains one of the most enigmatic lung cancers, demonstrating varied growth patterns, mixed histological features, and confusing clinical manifestations. This paper reports a case of an unusual form of presentation: a sclerosing type associated with desmoplastic reaction and cicatrization. A 75-year-old woman was admitted with persistent dry cough and progressive dy...

Metastatic carcinomas involving the lung are a common specimen encountered in surgical pathology. These metastases may have different morphologic, and architectural patterns and may mimic primary pulmonary adenocarcinoma, especially the intra-alveolar (lepidic) pattern of spread which may simulate a primary pulmonary bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (adenocarcinoma in situ). We present the case of ...