Cesar A Moran, Kaleigh E Lindholm, Hans Brunnström, Gerald Langman, Se Jin Jang, Dominic Spagnolo, Siaw Ming Chai, Andrew Laycock, Giovanni Falconieri, Stefano Pizzolitto, Alessandro de Pellegrin, Filomena Medeiros, Lilian Edmunds, Ana Catarino, Fernando Cunha, Jae Ro, Sergio Pina-Oviedo, Jose Torrealba, Domenico Coppola, Fredrik Petersson, Ming Lian Oon, Goran Elmberger, Santiago Ramon Y Cajal, Irene Sansano Valero, Liliana Dalurzo, Fernando Soares, Antonio H Campos, Semir Vranic, Faruk Skenderi, Arlene M Correa, Boris Sepesi, David Rice, Reza Mehran, Garrett Walsh
We present 783 surgical resections of typical and atypical carcinoid tumors of the lung identified in the pathology files of 20 different pathology departments. All cases were critically reviewed for clinical and pathological features and further correlated with clinical outcomes. Long-term follow-up was obtained in all the patients and statistically analyzed to determine significance of the different parameters evaluated. Of the histopathological features analyzed, the presence of mitotic activity of 4 mitoses or more per 2 mm2 , necrosis, lymphatic invasion, and lymph node metastasis were identified as statistically significant...
April 2020: Human Pathology