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(Chest. 1952;21:655-662.)
© 1952 American College of Chest Physicians

Alveolar Cell Tumor of the Lung

JAMES N. WHITE M.D.; GORDON F. MADDING M.D., F.C.C.P., F.A.C.S.; and LLOYD R. HERSHBERGER M.D.1

1 Pathologist, Shannon Memorial Hospital, San Angelo, Texas.

1) Alveolar cell tumors of the lung are rare and present symptoms which are often atypical and misleading.

2) This tumor occurs in two forms, i e. nodular or miliary variety and a diffuse or pneumonic type.

3) A case is reported in whom an alveolar cell tumor existed for a period of 11 years before death occurred. Symptoms had been attributed to unresolved pneumonia throughout the major part of its course.

4) Excisional surgery, where possible, is the treatment of choice but roentgen therapy is of aid in the inoperable case.

5) Metastases usually occur only to regional lymph nodes. In the case presented, distant metastases were also found.






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