Pneumocytic hyperplasia is an hyperplasia of
pneumocytes lining
pulmonary alveoli
A pulmonary alveolus (plural: alveoli, from Latin ''alveolus'', "little cavity"), also known as an air sac or air space, is one of millions of hollow, distensible cup-shaped cavities in the lungs where oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide. A ...
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Types
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atypical adenomatous hyperplasia Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia is a subtype of pneumocytic hyperplasia in the lung. It can be a precursor lesion of in situ adenocarcinoma of the lung (bronchioloalveolar carcinoma).
In prostate tissue biopsy, it can be confused for adenocarci ...
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Multifocal micronodular pneumocyte hyperplasia
References
Pulmonary lesion
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