See Also: alveolar cell carcinoma(medicine)
bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma(medicine)
alveolar cell(medicine)
oat cell carcinoma(medicine)
carcinoma, merkel cell(medicine)
Renal cell carcinoma(medicine)
renal cell carcinoma(encyclopedia)
Hurthle cell carcinoma(medicine)
small cell carcinoma(medicine)
carcinoma, squamous cell(medicine)

alveolar cell carcinoma (medicine)


alveolar cell carcinoma -->
bronchiolar carcinoma
<tumour> A carcinoma, thought to be derived from epithelium of terminal bronchioles, in which the neoplastic tissue extends along the alveolar walls and grows in small masses within the alveoli; involvement may be uniformly diffuse and massive, or nodular, or lobular; microscopically, the neoplastic cells are cuboidal or columnar and form papillary structures; mucin may be demonstrated in some of the cells and in the material in the alveoli, which also includes denuded cells; metastases in regional lymph nodes, and even in more distant sites, are known to occur, but are infrequent.

Synonym: alveolar cell carcinoma, bronchiolar adenocarcinoma, bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma, bronchioloalveolar adenocarcinoma.