PULMONARY LARGE CELL NEUROENDOCRINE CARCINOMA: A DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGE

DEMET YALDIZ, MEHMET SADIK YALDIZ, AYÇA TAN

Current Thoracic Surgery - 2021;6(2):78-81

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey

 

Pulmonary large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) is known by its highly aggressive behaviour. General presentation is early spread to both regional lymph nodes and distant sites. Here we present a totally asymptomatic patient with a huge fluid filled cystic lesion detected incidentally in a chest radiograph.