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The first internationally accepted classification of malignant lung tumors was published by the World Health Organization in 1967 and revised in 1981 (Table 1). The aim of the WHO classification of tumors has been to establish a morphologic classification which could be used routinely all over the world. The criteria should be sufficiently consistent to permit any pathologist to classify a given tumor in the same way. Such a classification would be expected to show biological consistency in that tumors similarly classified would have some important biological properties in common. In the following the WHO classification will be reviewed as applied at the Finsen Institute.
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Carter D, Eggleston JC (1980) Tumors of the lower respiratory tract. Atlas of tumor pathology. Fascile 17, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington DC
World Health Organization (1981) Histological typing of lung tumors. 2nd edn Geneva
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Hirsch, F.R. (1988). Histopathology, Ultrastructure, and Cytology. In: Hoogstraten, B., Addis, B.J., Hansen, H.H., Martini, N., Spiro, S.G. (eds) Lung Tumors. UICC Current Treatment of Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82873-7_5
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