ALK-rearranged adenosquamous lung cancer presenting as squamous cell carcinoma: a potential challenge to histologic type triaging of NSCLC biopsies for molecular studies

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¹ Department of Hematology and Oncology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Norris Cotton Cancer Center and The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH.
² Department of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Norris Cotton Cancer Center and The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH.
³ Department of Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Norris Cotton Cancer Center and The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Norris Cotton Cancer Center and The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH. Electronic address: Laura.J.Tafe@Hitchcock.org.

Case Reports

Konstantin H Dragnev et al. Clin Lung Cancer. 2014 May.

. 2014 May;15(3):e37-40.

doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2014.01.003. Epub 2014 Jan 18.

¹ Department of Hematology and Oncology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Norris Cotton Cancer Center and The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH.
² Department of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Norris Cotton Cancer Center and The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH.
³ Department of Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Norris Cotton Cancer Center and The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Norris Cotton Cancer Center and The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH. Electronic address: Laura.J.Tafe@Hitchcock.org.

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Keywords: ALK FISH; ALK rearrangement; Adenosquamous carcinoma; Molecular testing; Non–small-cell lung cancer.

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