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adenocarcinoma
(redirected from nasal adenocarcinoma)

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adenocarcinoma: see neoplasm neoplasm or tumor, tissue composed of cells that grow in an abnormal way. Normal tissue is growth-limited, i.e., cell reproduction is equal to cell death.
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Low-grade nasal adenocarcinomas pose a diagnostic challenge for the pathologist because they can be confused with benign adenomas.
Moreover, employment in the furniture- and cabinet-making industry has been causally associated with nasal adenocarcinoma, as well as with an increased risk of other nasal cancers (18).
In the summer of 1995, IARC released a monograph, citing 350 studies, mostly European, indicating that wood dust caused a higher than expected occurrence of nasal adenocarcinoma - a rare nasal cancer - in wood furniture industry workers.
 
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