The Histology of Lung Cancer

• DOI: 10.1136/thx.10.2.107
• Publication Date: 2008-12-13T01:57:54Z
• Authors: J. B. Walter; D. M. Pryce
• Keywords: Histology

With the great advances in thoracic surgery, radical excision for pulmonary carcinoma has become a relatively safe and frequent operation, offering to patient new hope of cure.However, if results operative treatment are be accurately assessed, ordinary gross pathology must carefully fully recorded, it is little use comparing survival rates unless attention paid not only different histological types growth, but also anatomical factors such as location, size, site origin, which can seriously affect outcome.At present there no uniformity nomenclature origin matter dispute.This paper gives our views on histology after recent study 207 surgical specimens 159 necropsies.