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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:

Differential diagnosis

Entities in which staghorn vessels are seen:

Others:[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Nappi, O.; Ritter, JH.; Pettinato, G.; Wick, MR. (Aug 1995). "Hemangiopericytoma: histopathological pattern or clinicopathologic entity?". Semin Diagn Pathol 12 (3): 221-32. PMID 8545589.