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Pathologic Evaluation of <strong>Lung</strong> <strong>Cancer</strong> 65<br />

Table 4–2. World Health Organization Classification<br />

of Nonepithelial Tumors of the <strong>Lung</strong><br />

Soft Tissue Lymphoproliferative Miscellaneous Tumor-Like<br />

Tumors Diseases Tumors Lesions<br />

Localized<br />

fibrous tumor<br />

Epithelioid<br />

hemangioendothelioma<br />

Pleuropulmonary<br />

blastoma<br />

Chondroma<br />

Calcifying fibrous<br />

pseudotumor of<br />

the pleura<br />

Congenital peribronchialmyofibroblastic<br />

tumor<br />

Diffuse pulmonary<br />

lymphangiomatosis<br />

Desmoplastic<br />

round cell tumor<br />

Source: Travis et al, 1999.<br />

Lymphoid<br />

interstitial pneumonia<br />

(LIP)<br />

Nodular lymphoid<br />

hyperplasia<br />

Low-grade marginal<br />

zone B-cell<br />

lymphoma of<br />

the mucosaassociatedlymphoid<br />

tissue<br />

(MALT)<br />

Lymphomatoid<br />

granulomatosis<br />

Hamartoma<br />

Sclerosing hemangioma<br />

Clear cell tumor<br />

Germ cell tumors:<br />

teratoma, mature;<br />

teratoma, immature<br />

Thymoma<br />

Malignant<br />

melanoma<br />

Tumorlet<br />

Minute<br />

meningothelioid<br />

nodules<br />

Langerhans cell<br />

histiocytosis<br />

Inflammatory<br />

pseudotumor<br />

(inflammatory<br />

myofibroblastic<br />

tumor)<br />

Localized organizing<br />

pneumonia<br />

Amyloid tumor<br />

(nodular amyloid)<br />

Hyalinizing granulomaLymphangioleiomyomatosis<br />

Micronodular<br />

pneumocyte<br />

hyperplasia<br />

Endometriosis<br />

Bronchial inflammatory<br />

polyp<br />

ratio, abnormalities in nuclear contour and nuclear chromatin, increased<br />

numbers of nucleoli and mitoses, and loss of normal maturation with alteration<br />

of polarity. Squamous dysplasia is graded as mild, moderate, or<br />

severe depending on the thickness of the involved epithelium and the<br />

severity of the changes.<br />

Carcinoma in situ is full-thickness involvement of the squamous mucosa<br />

by neoplastic cells that show all the morphologic features of squamous<br />

cell carcinoma but are confined by the basement membrane. These<br />

cells have the potential to invade into the underlying stroma, at which<br />

point they would be classified as squamous cell carcinoma. Carcinoma in<br />

situ cells may extend into submucosal glands, but such extension is not<br />

considered invasion as long as the basement membrane is not breached.

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