A rare lung tumor: pulmonary carcinosarcoma

Murat Kara; Berker Özkan; Berk Çimenoğlu; Fahmin Amirov; Yasemin Özlük

doi:10.26663/cts.2019.0007

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A rare lung tumor: pulmonary carcinosarcoma

Murat Kara¹,Berker Özkan¹,Berk Çimenoğlu¹,Fahmin Amirov¹,Yasemin Özlük²

Current Thoracic Surgery 2019;4(1):042-045. (31 December 2019)

¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey
²Department of Pathology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey

DOI : 10.26663/cts.2019.0007

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Pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma is an extremely rare malignant lung tumor with an unfavorable prognosis, which shows carcinomatous and sarcomatous components. We present a case of 78-year-old patient with a middle lobe tumor who underwent a bronchial sleeve middle lobectomy. The tumor was a carcinosarcoma with squamous cell carcinoma and rhabdomyosarcoma components histologically. We tried to emphasize this extreme lung tumor and its clinicopathological features.

Keywords : pulmonary carcinosarcoma, surgery, resection