Travis WD, Brambilla E, Burke AP, Marx A, Nicholson AG. Sarcomatoid carcinoma. WHO classification of tumors of the lung, pleura, thymus and heart. 4th ed. Lyon: International Agency for Research on Cancer; 2015. p. 88–90.
Google Scholar
Fishback NF, Travis WD, Moran CA, Guinee DG Jr, McCarthy WF, Koss MN. Pleomorphic (spindle/giant cell) carcinoma of the lung; a clinicopathologic correlation of 78 cases. Cancer. 1994;73:2936–45.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Yuki T, Sakuma T, Ohbayashi C, Yoshimura M, Tsubota N, Okita Y, et al. Pleomorphic carcinoma of the lung: a surgical outcome. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2007;134:399–404.
Article
Google Scholar
Venissac N, Pop D, Lassalle S, Berthier F, Hofman P, Mouroux J, et al. Sarcomatoid lung cancer (spindle/giant cells): an aggressive disease? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2007;134:619–23.
Article
Google Scholar
Yamamoto S, Hamatake D, Ueno T, Higuchi T, Hiratsuka M, Shiraishi T, et al. Clinicopathological investigation of pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2007;32:873–6.
Article
Google Scholar
Mochizuki T, Ishii G, Nagai K, Yoshida J, Nishimura M, Tetsuya M, et al. Pleomorphic carcinoma of the lung: clinicopathologic characteristics of 70 cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 2008;32:1727–35.
Article
Google Scholar
Kamimura Y, Tanahashi M, Yukiue H, Suzuki E, Yoshii N, Kitazawa S, et al. Prognostic factors in surgically resected pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma. J Jpn Assoc Chest Surg. 2018;32:556–63 (Japanese article with English abstract).
Article
Google Scholar
Okuda K, Oda R, Suzuki A, Sakane T, Kawano O, Hiroshi H, et al. Clinicopathological factors influenced the prognosis of surgically resected pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma. J Thorac Dis. 2017;9:1295–302.
Article
Google Scholar
Yamnashi K, Marumo S, Miura K, Kawashima M. Long-term survival in a case of pleomorphic carcinoma with brain metastasis. Case Rep Oncol. 2014;7:799–803.
Article
Google Scholar
Miura N, Mori R, Takenaka T, Yamazaki K, Momosaki S, Takeo S. Stage IV pleomorphic carcinoma of the lung without recurrence for 6 years: a case report. Surg Case Rep. 2017;3:36.
Article
Google Scholar
Kim MJ, Lee HN, Kim JI, Kim GY. Pleomorphic carcinoma of the lung mimicking synchronous pulmonary adenocarcinoma and small bowel sarcoma. Ann Thorac Med. 2018;13:251–3.
Article
Google Scholar
Aokage K, Yoshida J, Ishii G, Takahashi S, Sugito M, Nishimura M, et al. Long-term survival in two cases of resected gastric metastasis of pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma. J Thorac Oncol. 2008;3:796–9.
Article
Google Scholar
Bae HM, Min HS, Lee SH, Kim DW, Chung DH, Lee JS, et al. Palliative chemotherapy for pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma. Lung Cancer. 2007;58:112–5.
Article
Google Scholar
Zhao YY, Xue C, Jiang W, Zhao HY, Huang Y, Feenstra K, et al. Predictive value of intratumoral microvascular density in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer receiving chemotherapy plus bevacizumab. J Thorac Oncol. 2012;7:71–5.
Article
Google Scholar
Tamura Y, Fujiwara Y, Yamamoto N, Nokihira H, Horinouchi H, Kanda S, et al. Retrospective analysis of the efficacy of chemotherapy and molecular targeted therapy for advanced pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma. BMC Res Notes. 2015;8:800.
Article
Google Scholar
Lin L, Huang F, Chen F, He Y, Hu J, Cao X. Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-rearranged pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma successfully treated with crizotinib. J Int Med Res. 2018;46:3491–7.
Article
Google Scholar
Kanazu M, Uenami T, Yano Y, Nakatsubo S, Hosono Y, Ishijima M, et al. Case series of pleomorphic carcinomas of the lung treated with nivolumab. Thorac Cancer. 2017;8:724–8.
Article
Google Scholar
Forde PM, Chaft JE, Smith KN, Anagnostou V, Cottrell TR, Hellmann MD, et al. Neoadjuvant PD-1 blockade in resectable lung cancer. New Eng J Med. 2018;378:1976–86.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Iwanaga T. Studies on cases of spontaneous regression of cancer in Japan in 2011, and of hepatic carcinoma, lung cancer and pulmonary metastases in the world between 2006 and 2011. Jpn J Cancer Chemother. 2013;40:1475–87.
Google Scholar
Cole WH. Efforts to explain spontaneous regression of cancer. J Surg Oncol. 1981;17:201–9.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Muranishi Y, Ueshima Y, Hasegawa K, Shiotsu S, Takumi C, Hiraoka N. Spontaneous regression of pleomorphic lung carcinoma. AJRS. 2012;1:498–501 (Japanese article with English abstract).
Google Scholar
Mole RH. Whole-body irradiation; radiobiology or medicine? Br J Radiol. 1953;26:234–41.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Postow MA, Callahan MK, Barker CA, Yamada Y, Yuan J, Shigehisa K, et al. Immunologic correlates of the abscopal effect in a patient with melanoma. N Engl J Med. 2012;366:925–31.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar