Meanings
adjectivepleuropulmonary (not comparable)
- not comparableRelating to the pleura and the lungs
The DICER1 familial tumour susceptibility syndrome confers an increased risk most commonly for pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) but also ovarian sex cord-stromal tumours; Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor [SLCT], juvenile granulosa cell tumour [JGCT] and gynandroblastomas.
2015 July 3, Katrina Anna Mason et al., “Nasal Chondromesenchymal Hamartoma (NCMH): a systematic review of the literature with a new case report”, in Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, volume 44, →DOI
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