• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.461-465
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• 1996

We experienced a case of benign clear cell tumor of the lung. It is a rare and very unusual pulmonary neoplasm. Only 40 cases have been reported in the foreign literatures, but this is the 2nd case report in Korea. A 43 year old man who revealed a coin lesion in the chest X-ray at the health screening, underwent resection of the right lower lobe Pathologically the tumor ce ls have a clear cytoplasm due to abundant glycogen in the histochemical and electron microscopical studies.