Small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma

 

 

This is a low power view of a rare tumor which is identical histologically and biologically to small cell carcinoma  of the lung

(oat cell carcinoma). Both thymic and lung primaries are rapidly growing tumors which metastasize early in their course.

 

From the slide collection of the late Dr. Charles Kuhn.

Legend contributed by Dr. Ron DeLellis

 

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