Abstract
A 60‐year‐old woman with disseminated small cell carcinoma of the lung and hemophagocytosis by the metastatic cells in the bone marrow is presented, it is the first clinicopathologic report on phagocytosis of erythrocytes by lung tumor cells in concordance with a recently described evidence of a macrophage origin of small cell carcinoma of the lung.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 154-156 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | American Journal of Hematology |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 1991 |
Keywords
- hemophagocytosis
- macrophage origin
- small cell lung carcinoma