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mediastinal spindle-cell lesions
Tuesday 26 October 2010
Types
granulomatous inflammation
benign nerve sheath tumor
thymic cyst
spindle-cell thymoma
large-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma with sclerosis
nodular sclerosing Hodgkin disease
liposarcomas
spindle-cell squamous carcinoma (possibly arising in a teratoma)
unspecified high-grade sarcoma
spindle-cell malignant melanoma
nonspecific fibrous tissue
References
Spindle-cell lesions of the mediastinum: diagnosis by fine-needle aspiration biopsy. Slagel DD, Powers CN, Melaragno MJ, Geisinger KR, Frable WJ, Silverman JF. Diagn Cytopathol. 1997 Sep;17(3):167-76. PMID: 9285187
