Abstract
Alveolar adenomas of the lung may be a rare cause of solitary coin lesions on chest radiographs. We report a case of this neoplasm, describe its morphological and immunohistochemical characteristics and give further evidence that alveolar adenomas of the lung represent a benign proliferation of both the alveolar epithelium and the septal mesenchyme.
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Böhm, J., Fellbaum, C., Bautz, W. et al. Pulmonary nodule caused by an alveolar adenoma of the lung. Virchows Archiv 430, 181–184 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01008040
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