The paper characterizes sclerosing mucoepidermoid carcinoma with eosinophilia, a rare thyroid tumor, including histological and immunohistochemical features. The authors give their observation of a 26-year-old patient. The immunohistochemical findings (positive p63 and TTF-1 tumor cell nuclear staining) show the dual nature of a tumor arising from the cells of the ultimobranchial body and folli...

ronchogenic carcinoma causes most of the morbidity and mortality associated with neoplasms of the lower respiratory tract. The term "bronchial adenoma" has been used to describe a small subgroup which comprises about 1.5 percent of all neoplasms of the lower respiratory tract.'p2 The value of the term "bronchial adenoma" lies in its gross descriptive classification of a group of primary endobro...