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CASE REPORT article

Front. Oncol.

Sec. Thoracic Oncology

Volume 15 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1618619

This article is part of the Research TopicTailored Strategies for Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment in Special PopulationsView all 7 articles

Adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma in the same lobe of the lung with adenocarcinoma metastasis in the lymph nodes: a case report and literature review

Provisionally accepted
  • Weifang People's Hospital, Weifang, China

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sMPLC, Synchronous multiple primary lung cancer SCC, squamous cell carcinoma ACCP, American College of Chest Physicians IASLC, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer CT, computed tomography SCCA, Squamous Cell Carcinoma Antigen CEA, Carcinoembryonic antigen NSE, Neuron-Specific Enolase NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer HE, hematoxylin-eosin CK, cytokeratin TTF-1, thyroid transcription factor-1 TNM, tumor node metastasis EGFR, epidermal growth factor receptor KRAS, Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene ERBB2, Erb-B2 Receptor Tyrosine Kinase 2 TP53, tumor protein 53 PD-L1, programmed cell death ligand 1

Keywords: Adenocarcinoma, Squamous cell carcinoma, Lung, Immunohistochemical, diagnosis

Received: 26 Apr 2025; Accepted: 30 Jun 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Li, Zou, Wang, Xu and Yang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Mai-qing Yang, Weifang People's Hospital, Weifang, China

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