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===General=== | ===General=== | ||
*Very common. | *Very common. | ||
**Most common tumour of the hand.<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1253223-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1253223-overview]]. Accessed on: 8 February 2012.</ref> | **Most common tumour of the hand.<ref name=emed_gc>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1253223-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1253223-overview]]. Accessed on: 8 February 2012.</ref> | ||
*Classically on the wrist.<ref name=pmid17488856>{{Cite journal | last1 = Hasham | first1 = S. | last2 = Burke | first2 = FD. | title = Diagnosis and treatment of swellings in the hand. | journal = Postgrad Med J | volume = 83 | issue = 979 | pages = 296-300 | month = May | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1136/pgmj.2005.043992 | PMID = 17488856 }}</ref> | *Classically on the wrist.<ref name=pmid17488856>{{Cite journal | last1 = Hasham | first1 = S. | last2 = Burke | first2 = FD. | title = Diagnosis and treatment of swellings in the hand. | journal = Postgrad Med J | volume = 83 | issue = 979 | pages = 296-300 | month = May | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1136/pgmj.2005.043992 | PMID = 17488856 }}</ref> | ||
===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||
Features: | Features:<ref name=emed_gc>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1243454-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1243454-overview]. Accessed on: 8 February 2012.</ref> | ||
* | *Empty space(s); usually multiple. | ||
*Fibrotic wall. | *Fibrotic wall. | ||
*No epithelial lining.† | |||
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† The entity is really a pseudocyst.<ref name=emed_gc/> | |||
Images: | |||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganglion_Cyst,_Hand.jpg Ganglion cyst of the hand (WC/Uthman)]. | *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganglion_Cyst,_Hand.jpg Ganglion cyst of the hand (WC/Uthman)]. | ||
*[http://www.surgicalpathologyatlas.com/glfusion/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=2008080217190580 Ganglion cyst (surgicalpathologyatlas.com)]. | |||
=See also= | =See also= |
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