American journal of clinical pathology
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Am. J. Clin. Pathol. · Feb 2016
Pathologic Staging and Survival of Patients With Synchronous Bilateral Lung Carcinomas.
To compare survival data in patients with resected bilateral synchronous pulmonary carcinomas with survival data from patients with lung cancer in pStages I through IV and to evaluate the usefulness of comprehensive histologic evaluation (CHE) of tumor histologic patterns to distinguish between synchronous primaries and intrapulmonary metastases. ⋯ Patients with resected synchronous bilateral lung cancers had similar 10-year OS to patients with stage I disease, regardless of CHE data. Most resected tumors were synchronous primaries by CHE.