Hepatoid Adenocarcinoma of the Lung
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in The American Journal of Surgical Pathology
- Vol. 21 (9), 1113-1118
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000478-199709000-00018
Abstract
We report on a rare tumor of the lung characterized by its morphologic hepatoid features and α-fetoprotein production. This unusual neoplasm arose in the left lung of a 36-year-old man in whom clinical and radiologic examinations did not reveal any other tumor. The serum level of α-fetoprotein was measured at 6,090 ng/mL and was parallel to the evolution of the tumor. Despite treatment, the patient died 7 months after the diagnosis. The microscopic appearance of the tumor was the same as observed in hepatocarcinoma and hepatoid adenocarcinoma of the ovary or the stomach, with a tubular, papillary, or trabecular pattern. Periodic acid-Schiff-positive hyaline globules were numerous, and tumor cells showed immunohistologic positivity for α-fetoprotein and carcinoembryonic antigen. This lung adenocarcinoma was first described by Ishikura et al. in 1990 and was named hepatoid lung adenocarcinoma. Like the rare hepatoid carcinoma of the gallbladder, the pancreas, the ampulla of Vater, the renal pelvis, and the bladder, the exact histogenesis and the prognosis of this type of lung tumor are not yet known.Keywords
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