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To the Editor: Booton and Jacob (Jan. 10 issue)¹ present an elegant and illustrative case of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (also referred to as bronchoalveolar-cell carcinoma) of the lung. However, their statement that a "transbronchial biopsy led to the diagnosis of bronchoalveolar-cell carcinoma" is questionable, in our opinion.

The concept of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma has changed radically over the past three years. According to the current World Health Organization (WHO) histologic classification of lung and pleural tumors, bronchioloalveolar carcinoma is an "adenocarcinoma with no evidence of stromal, vascular or pleural invasion."² This statement implies that the conclusive diagnosis of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma requires thorough . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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