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*Oncogenic osteomalacia - assoc. with hemangiopericytoma.<ref name=emed1255879ov>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview]. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.</ref>
*Oncogenic osteomalacia - assoc. with hemangiopericytoma.<ref name=emed1255879ov>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview]. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.</ref>


===Presentation===
====Presentation====
*Usually painless mass, slow enlargement.
*Usually painless mass, slow enlargement.


====Radiology====
===Radiology===
*Intramedullary lytic mass.
*Intramedullary lytic mass.
*May be well-circumscribed.
*May be well-circumscribed.
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May be worked-up with angiography to distinguish from a [[vascular malformation]].<ref name=emed1255879dx>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-diagnosis http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-diagnosis]. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.</ref>
May be worked-up with angiography to distinguish from a [[vascular malformation]].<ref name=emed1255879dx>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-diagnosis http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-diagnosis]. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.</ref>
===Location===
====Location====
*Usually extremities - femur or proximal tibial.<ref name=emed1255879ov>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview]. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.</ref>
*Usually extremities - femur or proximal tibial.<ref name=emed1255879ov>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview]. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.</ref>


===Histology===
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=emed1255879dx>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-diagnosis http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-diagnosis]. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.</ref>
Features:<ref name=emed1255879dx>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-diagnosis http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-diagnosis]. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.</ref>
*Hypervascular lesion - '''key diagnostic feature'''.<ref name=enzinger>Enzinger & Weiss's Soft Tissue Tumors. 4th Ed. PP.1007-13. ISBN 0-323-01200-0.</ref>
*Hypervascular lesion - '''key diagnostic feature'''.<ref name=enzinger>Enzinger & Weiss's Soft Tissue Tumors. 4th Ed. PP.1007-13. ISBN 0-323-01200-0.</ref>
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***Cells may "onion-skin" around thin blood vessels.
***Cells may "onion-skin" around thin blood vessels.
*Spindle or ovoid shaped cells in nests or sheets.
*Spindle or ovoid shaped cells in nests or sheets.
DDx:
*Other vascular tumours.
*Vascular malformations.
*Synovial sarcoma.


===IHC===
===IHC===
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*EMA -ve.
*EMA -ve.
*S100 -ve.
*S100 -ve.
===DDx===
*Other vascular tumours.
*Vascular malformations.
*Synovial sarcoma.


==Desmoplastic fibroblastoma==
==Desmoplastic fibroblastoma==
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