scar cancer
scar car·ci·no·ma
carcinoma of the lung, usually adenocarcinoma, arising from a peripheral lung scar or associated with interstitial fibrosis in a honeycomb lung.
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scar cancer
A cancer often located in the pulmonary apices and associated with pre-existing scars, wounds or inflammation–eg, healed TB, infarcts, abscess cavities, bronchiectasis, and metallic foreign bodies–eg, bullets; 80% of SCs are adenoCAs, 15% are SCCs, the rest are of other histopathologic types. See Passenger/driver controversy. McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in periodicals archive
Ischemia is also implicated in the pulmonary scar cancers. Kolin and Koutoulakis[15] studied the pathogenesis of scars in 57 consecutively resected, small ([is less than or equal to] 3 cm) peripheral lung cancers.
Role of arterial occlusion in pulmonary scar cancers. Hum Pathol.
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