Palatine tonsillar metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma: an unusual immunohistochemical phenotype and a potential diagnostic pitfall

Metastasis rarely occurs to the palatine tonsils. Herein, we present an exceedingly rare case of palatine tonsillar metastasis from poorly differentiated lung adenocarcinoma with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) mutation in a 51-year-old woman. The patient manifested clinically as pharyngalgia witho...

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Published in:Int J Clin Exp Pathol
Main Authors: Tian, Ying, Han, Yunan, Du, Jiang, Zhang, Yao, Liu, Nan, Du, Xin, Li, Bo
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: e-Century Publishing Corporation 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6949607/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31934054
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