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Hemophagocytosis by small cell lung carcinoma
Author(s) -
Molad Yair,
Stark Pinhas,
Prokocimer Miron,
Joshua Henry,
Pinkhas Jack,
Sidi Yechezkel
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
american journal of hematology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.456
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1096-8652
pISSN - 0361-8609
DOI - 10.1002/ajh.2830360218
Subject(s) - hemophagocytosis , lung , pathology , medicine , carcinoma , bone marrow , small cell lung carcinoma , small cell carcinoma , phagocytosis , metastatic carcinoma , macrophage , oncology , immunology , biology , biochemistry , pancytopenia , in vitro
A 60‐year‐old woman with disseminated small cell carcinoma of the lung and hemophagocytosis by the metastatic cells in the bone marrow is presented, it is the first clinicopathologic report on phagocytosis of erythrocytes by lung tumor cells in concordance with a recently described evidence of a macrophage origin of small cell carcinoma of the lung.