Advances of Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma with Micropapillary Pattern

Lung adenocarcinoma with micropapillary pattern (MPP) is a kind of rare high invasive malignant tumor, which has been noticed because of high mortality. In 2011, the new pathological classification of lung adenocarcinoma classify it as an independent pathological type, researches on the individual treatment of the disease had been gradually expanded. Recent studies have demonstrated that lung adenocarcinoma with MPP has obvious heterogeneities in metastasis mechanism, clinical pathology, imageology, therapeusis and prognosis. In this paper, we discuss the progress of metastasis mechanism and clinical relevance in lung adenocarcinoma with MPP.