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'''Glomus tumours''', [[AKA]] glomangioma, are painful. | '''Glomus tumours''', [[AKA]] glomangioma, are painful. | ||
It should not be confused with ''[[paraganglioma]]'', which were once called glomus tumour. | |||
==Microscopic== | ==Microscopic== | ||
Features:<ref>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/Z0B003-PQ01-M.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/Z0B003-PQ01-M.htm]. Accessed on: 19 October 2010.</ref> | Features:<ref name=ouhsc>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/Z0B003-PQ01-M.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/Z0B003-PQ01-M.htm]. Accessed on: 19 October 2010.</ref> | ||
*Sheets of polygonal epithelioid cells with thin-walled blood vessels. | *Sheets of polygonal epithelioid cells with thin-walled blood vessels. | ||
*No significant nuclear atypia. | *No significant nuclear atypia. | ||
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*[http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/Z0B003-PQ01-M.htm Glomus tumour (ouhsc.edu)]. | *[http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/Z0B003-PQ01-M.htm Glomus tumour (ouhsc.edu)]. | ||
===Other diagnoses... === | |||
Why it is not a(n) ...<ref name=ouhsc>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/Z0B003-PQ01-M.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/Z0B003-PQ01-M.htm]. Accessed on: 19 October 2010.</ref> | |||
*Angiosarcoma - has nuclear atypia. | |||
*Dermatofibroma - spindle cell lesion. | |||
*Capillary hemangioma - no epithelioid cells, more blood vessels. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Revision as of 05:30, 29 November 2010
Glomus tumours, AKA glomangioma, are painful.
It should not be confused with paraganglioma, which were once called glomus tumour.
Microscopic
Features:[1]
- Sheets of polygonal epithelioid cells with thin-walled blood vessels.
- No significant nuclear atypia.
Image:
Other diagnoses...
Why it is not a(n) ...[1]
- Angiosarcoma - has nuclear atypia.
- Dermatofibroma - spindle cell lesion.
- Capillary hemangioma - no epithelioid cells, more blood vessels.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 URL: http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/Z0B003-PQ01-M.htm. Accessed on: 19 October 2010.