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*Some consider this a wastebasket diagnosis... for benign appearing spindle cell lesions.<ref>URL: [http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/diagnosis?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970283-2 http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/diagnosis?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970283-2]. Accessed on: 10 May 2011.</ref> | *Some consider this a wastebasket diagnosis... for benign appearing spindle cell lesions.<ref>URL: [http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/diagnosis?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970283-2 http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/diagnosis?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970283-2]. Accessed on: 10 May 2011.</ref> | ||
==Elastofibroma== | |||
===General=== | |||
*Benign. | |||
*Classically, subscapular in elderly women.<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1057113-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1057113-overview]. Accessed on: 26 October 2011.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Ben Hassouna | first1 = J. | last2 = Hamdi | first2 = N. | last3 = Ben Bachouche | first3 = W. | last4 = Bouzid | first4 = T. | last5 = Dhiab | first5 = T. | last6 = Rahal | first6 = K. | title = Elastofibroma dorsi. | journal = Orthop Traumatol Surg Res | volume = 96 | issue = 6 | pages = 717-20 | month = Oct | year = 2010 | doi = 10.1016/j.otsr.2010.03.019 | PMID = 20708994 }}</ref> | |||
===Microscopic=== | |||
Features: | |||
*Thick bundles of collagen. | |||
*Elastin fibres. | |||
Image: | |||
*[http://www.surgicalpathologyatlas.com/glfusion/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20080802163630229 Elastofibroma (surgicalpathologyatlas.com)]. | |||
==Nodular fasciitis== | ==Nodular fasciitis== | ||