A small oval cell with little cytoplasm and a densely staining nucleus, characteristic of carcinoma of the bronchus.
as modifier‘oat cell carcinoma’
‘A frozen-section diagnosis rendered during the thoracotomy was ‘tumor; probable lymphoma, small cell; rule out oat cell carcinoma.’’
‘Small cell carcinomas, formerly called oat cell carcinomas, are easily recognized by pathologists, 3 respond to chemotherapy and irradiation, and are not a diagnostic problem.’
‘While on a cruise, the patient met a man who claimed that daily self-medication with germanium had cured him of oat cell carcinoma of the lung that was diagnosed 15 years earlier.’
‘Neuroendocrine carcinomas with features indistinguishable from pulmonary oat cell carcinoma can occur in a variety of extrapulmonary sites.’
‘Small cell lung cancer, sometimes called oat cell cancer, is less common than non-small cell lung cancer.’
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