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Pathology has no truth in names. Misnomers redirects to this article.
The big table of lies
| Diagnosis | Comment |
|---|---|
| Papillary thyroid carcinoma | does not need papillae |
| Large cell variant of small cell carcinoma | name is an oxymoron |
| Sertoli-Leydig cell tumour | does not require Sertoli cells and Leydig cells[1] |
| Eosinophilic variant of clear cell renal cell carcinoma | name is an oxymoron |
| Clear cell carcinoma | cells do not have to be clear; hobnailing is the key feature |
| Clear cell sarcoma | cells do not have to be clear through-out |
| Maternal floor infarct | not really an infarct |
| Microglial | a macrophage; not glial |
| Ganglion cyst | not really a cyst |
| Fibroadenoma | really ought to be adenofibroma, as the fibrous part is the lesion |
| Pyogenic granuloma | not infectious and not granulomatous |
| Solitary rectal ulcer | three lies... none of the three have to be true in a given case |
See also
References
- ↑ Cotran, Ramzi S.; Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Nelso Fausto; Robbins, Stanley L.; Abbas, Abul K. (2005). Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease (7th ed.). St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Saunders. pp. 1103. ISBN 0-7216-0187-1.