By Philip T. Cagle MD, Timothy C. Allen MD JD, Roberto Barrios MD, Carlos Bedrossian MD, Megan K. Dishop MD, Armando Fraire MD, Abida K. Haque MD, Keith M. Kerr MD, Alvaro C. Laga MD, Mary L. Ostrowski MD, Anna Sienko MD
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Cagle The pulmonary vasculature involved in gas exchange includes pulmonary arteries and arterioles that bring blood relatively low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide from the heart to the gas exchange areas, alveolar capillaries where the gas exchange occurs, and pulmonary venules and veins that return oxygenated blood to the heart. Bronchial arteries and veins are part of the systemic circulation and provide oxygen and nutrients to the bronchi. Pulmonary arteries branch into increasingly smaller vessels accompanying the bronchi and bronchioles, often with a common connective tissue sheath (bronchovascular bundle), and have a cross-section diameter approximately equal to that of the accompanying airway.
Most adenocarcinomas consist of two or more of the subtypes and therefore fall into the mixed subtype. It is common Cagle_Sec03_ch10-16_033-168 8/9/04 10:04 AM Page 36 36 Chapter 10 to see central scarring in pulmonary adenocarcinomas and a focal bronchioloalveolar-like pattern at the periphery of the tumor. Due to distinctive clinicopathologic features, bronchioloalveolar carcinomas are discussed in Part 2 of this chapter. Cytologic Features: ■ Tissue fragments, cell clusters, single cells. Eccentric nuclei with finely granular chromatin.
1 Low power shows normal lung parenchyma with numerous alveoli cut in cross section, many of them arising from alveolar sacs and alveolar ducts, creating a tremendous surface area for gas exchange between the air in the alveolar lumens and the capillaries within their very thin walls or septa. 2 Higher power shows the alveoli’s thin delicate walls or septa containing inconspicuous capillaries; nuclei of several types of cells, which are not always distinguishable by light microscopy, represent nuclei of flat, simple, lining epithelial cells (type 1 pneumocytes), nuclei of occasional cuboidal epithelial cells (type 2 pneumocytes), capillary endothelial cell nuclei, and scattered lymphocytes, mesenchymal cells, and macrophages.