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Adenocarcinoma
- Lepidic adenocarcinoma
- Acinar adenocarcinoma
- Papillary adenocarcinoma
- Micropapillary adenocarcinoma
- Solid adenocarcinoma
- Invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma
  - Mixed invasive mucinous
  - Nonmucinous adenocarcinoma
- Colloid adenocarcinoma
- Fetal adenocarcinoma
- Enteric adenocarcinoma
- Minimally invasive adenocarcinoma
- Nonmucinous
  - Mucinous
- Preinvasive lesions
  - Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia
  - Adenocarcinoma in situ
    - Nonmucinous
    - Mucinous

- Keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma
- Nonkeratinizing squamous cell carcinoma
- Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma
- Preinvasive lesion
  - Squamous cell carcinoma in situ

Small cell carcinoma
- Combined small cell carcinoma
Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma
- Combined large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma
Carcinoid tumors
- Typical carcinoid tumor
- Atypical carcinoid tumor
Preinvasive lesion
- Diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia
Large cell carcinoma
Adenosquamous carcinoma
Sarcomatoid carcinomas
- Pleomorphic carcinoma
- Spindle cell carcinoma
- Giant cell carcinoma
- Carcinosarcoma
- Pulmonary blastoma
Other and Unclassified carcinomas
- Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma
- NUT carcinoma
Salivary gland-type tumors
- Mucoepidermoid carcinoma
- Adenoid cystic carcinoma
- Epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma
- Pleomorphic adenoma

Papillomas
- Squamous cell papilloma
  - Exophytic
  - Inverted
- Glandular papilloma
- Mixed squamous and glandular papilloma
Adenomas
- Sclerosing pneumocytoma
- Alveolar adenoma
- Papillary adenoma
- Mucinous cystadenoma
- Mucous gland adenoma

Pulmonary hamartoma
Chondroma
PEComatous tumors
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
- PEComa, benigne
  - Clear cell tumor
- PEComa, malignant
Congenital peribronchial myofibroblastic tumor
Diffuse pulmonary lymphangiomatosis
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma
Pleuropulmonary blastoma
Synovial sarcoma
Pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma
Pulmonary myxoid sarcoma with EWSR1–CREB1 translocation
Myoepithelial tumors
- Myoepithelioma
- Myoepithelial carcinoma

Extranodal marginal zone lymphomas of mucosa-associated Lymphoid tissue (MALT lymphoma)
Diffuse large cell lymphoma
Lymphomatoid granulomatosis
Intravascular large B cell lymphoma
Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Erdheim–Chester disease

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