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'''Staghorn vessels''' are a non-specific finding seen in a number of tumours.<ref name=pmid8545589>{{Cite journal | last1 = Nappi | first1 = O. | last2 = Ritter | first2 = JH. | last3 = Pettinato | first3 = G. | last4 = Wick | first4 = MR. | title = Hemangiopericytoma: histopathological pattern or clinicopathologic entity? | journal = Semin Diagn Pathol | volume = 12 | issue = 3 | pages = 221-32 | month = Aug | year = 1995 | doi = | PMID = 8545589 }}</ref> | '''Staghorn vessels''' are a non-specific finding seen in a number of tumours.<ref name=pmid8545589>{{Cite journal | last1 = Nappi | first1 = O. | last2 = Ritter | first2 = JH. | last3 = Pettinato | first3 = G. | last4 = Wick | first4 = MR. | title = Hemangiopericytoma: histopathological pattern or clinicopathologic entity? | journal = Semin Diagn Pathol | volume = 12 | issue = 3 | pages = 221-32 | month = Aug | year = 1995 | doi = | PMID = 8545589 }}</ref> | ||
==Microscopic== | |||
Features: | |||
*Small branching vessels: | |||
**"Antler-like" or "Staghorn-like" appearacne. | |||
Images: | |||
*Micrographs: | |||
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solitary_fibrous_tumour_high_mag.jpg SFT - high mag. (WC)]. | |||
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monophasic_synovial_sarcoma_-_intermed_mag.jpg Synovial sarcoma - intermed. mag. (WC)]. | |||
*Gross: | |||
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Staghorn_coral.jpg Staghorn coral (WC)]. | |||
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Staghorn_Fungus_in_Millington_Wood_-_geograph.org.uk_-_638148.jpg Staghorn fungus (WC)]. | |||
==Differential diagnosis== | |||
Entities in which staghorn vessels are seen: | Entities in which staghorn vessels are seen: | ||
*[[Solitary fibrous tumour]]/[[hemangiopericytoma]].<ref name=pmid8545589/> | *[[Solitary fibrous tumour]]/[[hemangiopericytoma]].<ref name=pmid8545589/> |
Revision as of 14:40, 8 October 2011
Staghorn vessels are a non-specific finding seen in a number of tumours.[1]
Microscopic
Features:
- Small branching vessels:
- "Antler-like" or "Staghorn-like" appearacne.
Images:
- Micrographs:
- Gross:
Differential diagnosis
Entities in which staghorn vessels are seen:
- Solitary fibrous tumour/hemangiopericytoma.[1]
- Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour (MPNST).[1]
- Synovial sarcoma.[1]
- Myofibroma.[1]
Others:[1]
- Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma.
- Infantile fibrosarcoma.
- Pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma.
- Leiomyosarcoma.
- Endometrial stromal sarcoma.
- Malignant mesothelioma.
- Thymoma
- Sarcomatoid carcinoma.
- Malignant melanoma.