Clinical and histopathological characteristics of 132 patients with centrally located typical and atypical pulmonary carcinoid tumours
| Characteristics | Overall |
|---|---|
| Number of patients (overall/surgically resected) | 132/110 (119 TC, 13 AC)* |
| Sex (F/M; N) | 67/65 |
| Age (years, median (range)) | 55 (17–79) |
| Clinical symptoms (N)† | 59 (45%) |
| PEPPS‡ applied (yes/no) | 38/74 (35% of all surgically resected patients) |
| Tumour size (cm, median (range)) | 2 (0–5) |
| Growth pattern (exophytic/infiltrating) | 68/49 |
* TC vs AC tumours.
†At diagnosis. Pneumonia with cough, fever, dyspnoea, haemoptysis, pain or carcinoid syndrome.
‡Preoperative bronchoscopic tumour ablation to recanalise the bronchus followed by subsequent parenchyma-sparing surgery technique.
AC, atypical carcinoid; F, female; M, male; PEPPS, Procedure of Endobronchial Preparation for Parenchyma-sparing Surgery; TC, typical carcinoid.