Differential diagnosis of spindle cell tumours of the lung

• spindle cell carcinoma

• carcinosarcoma

• carcinoid

• malignant mesothelioma

• fibrosarcoma

• leiomyosarcoma

• malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour

• haemangiopericytoma

• synovial sarcoma: there are about 30 cases of primary pulmonary synovial sarcoma in the literature1

References

1Hisaoka, M., Hashimoto, H., Iwamasa, T., Ishikawa, K., Aoki, T. Primary synovial sarcoma of the lung: report of two cases confirmed by molecular detection of SYT-SSX fusion gene transcripts Histopathology 1999;34:205-210

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