Difference between revisions of "Cardiac tumours"

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Features:<ref name=pmid12006696/>
Features:<ref name=pmid12006696/>
*[[myxoid stroma|Myxoid]] material - extra cellular - '''key feature'''.
*[[myxoid stroma|Myxoid]] material - extra cellular - '''key feature'''.
*Myxoma cells - stellate, polygonal.<ref name=pmid16508920>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Orlandi | first1 = A. | last2 = Ciucci | first2 = A. | last3 = Ferlosio | first3 = A. | last4 = Genta | first4 = R. | last5 = Spagnoli | first5 = LG. | last6 = Gabbiani | first6 = G. | title = Cardiac myxoma cells exhibit embryonic endocardial stem cell features. | journal = J Pathol | volume = 209 | issue = 2 | pages = 231-9 | month = Jun | year = 2006 | doi = 10.1002/path.1959 | PMID = 16508920 }}</ref>
*Myxoma cells:<ref name=pmid16508920>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Orlandi | first1 = A. | last2 = Ciucci | first2 = A. | last3 = Ferlosio | first3 = A. | last4 = Genta | first4 = R. | last5 = Spagnoli | first5 = LG. | last6 = Gabbiani | first6 = G. | title = Cardiac myxoma cells exhibit embryonic endocardial stem cell features. | journal = J Pathol | volume = 209 | issue = 2 | pages = 231-9 | month = Jun | year = 2006 | doi = 10.1002/path.1959 | PMID = 16508920 }}</ref>
**Stellate, polygonal or spindled morphology.
**+/-Multinucleated.
**Inconspicuous [[nucleoli]].
**Abundant cytoplasm.
*Calcified elastic fibers - ''gamna bodies''.
*Calcified elastic fibers - ''gamna bodies''.
*Hemorrhage common.
*Hemorrhage common.
*Often covered by endothelium.
*Often covered by endothelium.
*+/-Ossification.
*+/-Ossification.
*+/-Fibrosis.


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