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Hans Blaauwgeers
Researcher at VU University Medical Center
Publications - 11
Citations - 207
Hans Blaauwgeers is an academic researcher from VU University Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Lung cancer. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 10 publications receiving 155 citations.
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A Prospective Study of Loose Tissue Fragments in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Resection Specimens: An Alternative View to "Spread Through Air Spaces".
Hans Blaauwgeers,Douglas B. Flieder,Arne Warth,Alexander Harms,Kim Monkhorst,Birgit I. Witte,Erik Thunnissen +6 more
TL;DR: Investigation of free-floating tumor cell clusters in surgically resected lung cancer specimens and their possible relation to gross examination procedures found 93% of the loose tissue fragments could be explained by mechanical forces associated with tissue handling.
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Ex Vivo Artifacts and Histopathologic Pitfalls in the Lung.
Erik Thunnissen,Hans Blaauwgeers,Erienne M. V. de Cuba,Ching Yong Yick,Douglas B. Flieder,Douglas B. Flieder +5 more
TL;DR: Four patterns of pulmonary ex vivo artifacts are important to recognize in order to avoid morphologic misinterpretations, including diagnostic patterns of adenocarcinoma, asthma, constrictive bronchiolitis, and lymphedema.
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Pulmonary loose tumor tissue fragments and spread through air spaces (STAS): Invasive pattern or artifact? A critical review
TL;DR: Data support the conclusion that the inclusion of STAS in the WHO classification for lung cancer as a pattern of invasion was premature and erroneous, and suggest that these tumor cell clusters or loose cells appear to be simply an artifact.
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RE: Spread Through Air Spaces (STAS) is Prognostic in Atypical Carcinoid, Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma, and Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung.
Erik Thunnissen,Alberto M. Marchevsky,Giulio Rossi,Prudence A. Russell,Hans Blaauwgeers,Teodora Radonic,Jan H. von der Thüsen,Douglas B. Flieder,Giuseppe Pelosi +8 more
TL;DR: In patients with lung NETs, STAS is associated with early distant metastasis and worse LC-CID, and in patients with LCNEC or SCLC,STAS is an independent poor prognostic factor.
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A Population-Based Study of Outcomes in Surgically Resected T3N0 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in The Netherlands, Defined Using TNM-7 and TNM-8; Justification of Changes and an Argument to Incorporate Histology in the Staging Algorithm.
Hans Blaauwgeers,Ronald A.M. Damhuis,Birgit I. Lissenberg-Witte,Adrianus J. de Langen,Suresh Senan,Erik Thunnissen +5 more
TL;DR: This population analysis of overall survival rate by pT3N0 subcategory for NSCLC suggests that histologic type is a relevant descriptor in the category two or more nodules, and it is suggested that a combination of two pT 3 descriptors (the mixed group) merits migration to pT4.