Pulmonary myofibroblastic nodules with "amianthoid features"

Pathol Res Pract. 1991 Sep;187(7):906-11. doi: 10.1016/S0344-0338(11)80590-X.

Abstract

Two consecutive publications appeared 1989 in the same number of a medical journal, which reported peculiar spindle-cell tumors with dense collagen or hyaline nodules, exclusively in inguinal lymph nodes of adults. The first series of 22 cases bore the title "Palisaded myofibroblastoma, a benign mesenchymal tumor of lymph node", the second with 6 identical cases "Intranodal hemorrhagic spindle-cell tumor with "amianthoid" fibers". The following case report deals with a similar tumorous lesion, with multiple small pulmonary nodules, without recognizable lymph node constituents.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Lung / pathology
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Lung Neoplasms / ultrastructure
  • Microscopy, Electron
  • Middle Aged
  • Radiography, Thoracic