Difference between revisions of "Fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumours"

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===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP609>{{Ref WMSP|609}}</ref>
Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP609>{{Ref WMSP|609}}</ref><ref>URL: [http://www.surgicalpathologyatlas.com/glfusion/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090717111548196 http://www.surgicalpathologyatlas.com/glfusion/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090717111548196]. Accessed on: 4 October 2011.</ref>
*Abundant fibroblasts.
*"Sweeping fascicles"/bundles.
**Arranged in bundles or fascicles.
*Spindle cells with:
*+/-Collagen.
**Small slender nuclei.
**Solid dark eosinophilic cytoplasm.
*+/-Mitoses - may be abundant.
*Long thin-walled vessels - parallel to one another - '''important feature'''.
 
Notes:
*Hypertrophic scar-like lesion; see also ''[[dermal scar]]''.
 
Images:
*[http://www.surgicalpathologyatlas.com/glfusion/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090717111548196 Desmoid tumour (surgicalpathologyatlas.com)].
*[http://www.cheapmedicinechest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Figure-4.-Desmoid-tumor-with-fibroblastic-proliferation.png Desmoid tumour (cheapmedicinechest.com)].<ref>URL: [http://www.cheapmedicinechest.com/abdominal-pain-and-colonic-obstruction-from-an-intra-abdominal-desmoid-tumor.html http://www.cheapmedicinechest.com/abdominal-pain-and-colonic-obstruction-from-an-intra-abdominal-desmoid-tumor.html]. Accessed on: 4 October 2011.</ref>


===IHC===
===IHC===
Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP609>{{Ref WMSP|609}}</ref>
Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP609>{{Ref WMSP|609}}</ref>
*Beta-catenin +ve.
*Beta-catenin +ve - '''important'''.
*SMA +ve ~50% of lesions.
*SMA +ve ~50% of lesions.


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