No truth in names
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Pathology has no truth in names.
Examples:
- Papillary thyroid carcinoma - does not need papillae.
- Large cell variant of small cell carcinoma.
- Sertoli-Leydig cell tumour - does not require Sertoli cells and Leydig cells.[1]
- Eosinophilic variant of clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
- 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.