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===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||
Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP606>{{Ref WMSP|606}}</ref> | Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP606>{{Ref WMSP|606}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=de Feraudy S, Fletcher CD |title=Intradermal nodular fasciitis: a rare lesion analyzed in a series of 24 cases |journal=Am. J. Surg. Pathol. |volume=34 |issue=9 |pages=1377–81 |year=2010 |month=September |pmid=20716998 |doi=10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181ed7374 |url=}}</ref> | ||
* | *Usu. well-circumscribed. | ||
* | *Clusters of (non-pleomorphic) spindle cells. | ||
*Inflammation (lymphocytes). | |||
*Microcysts in cellular regions - uncommon - ''discriminatory''. | |||
*Mitoses - common. | |||
*Extravasated [[RBC]]s. | |||
The BD feature list:<ref>BD. 26 April 2011.</ref> | |||
*Tissue culture-like/CNS-like morphology. | |||
*Thick (keloid-like) collagen bundles - '''key feature'''. | |||
*Extravasated [[RBC]]s. | |||
*Inflammation. | *Inflammation. | ||
* | *+/-Giant cells. | ||
Notes: | Notes: | ||
*No significant nuclear atypia. | *No significant nuclear atypia. | ||
*No atypical mitoses. | *No atypical mitoses. | ||
*May be cellular. | |||
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