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What is it? Unusual interstitial fibrohistiocytic tumor or other
Farah K Khalil1, Elizabeth Sagatys, Michael B Morgan
1University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA.
The American Journal of Dermatopathology
|May 29, 2004
Abstract:
Fibrohistiocytic lesions are capable of presenting in a variety of histologic guises. We have recently encountered two lesions that similarly showed a hitherto described proliferation of atypical spindled and stellate cells with a distinctive deep dermal and interstitial distribution. The pathogenic significance and nosologic status of this neoplasm is unknown.
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