The Korean Journal of Cytopathology (대한세포병리학회지)

The Korean Society for Cytopathology (대한세포병리학회)
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Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of Proliferative Fasciitis

증식성 근막염의 세침흡인 세포학적 소견

  • Choi, Yoon-Jung (Department of Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Yi, Sang-Yeop (Department of Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Yang, Woo-Ick (Department of Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Jung, Soon-Hee (Department of Pathology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine) ;
  • Lee, Kwang-Gil (Department of Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine)
  • 최윤정 (연세대학교 의과대학 병리학교실) ;
  • 이상엽 (연세대학교 의과대학 병리학교실) ;
  • 양우익 (연세대학교 의과대학 병리학교실) ;
  • 정순희 (연세대학교 원주의과대학 병리학교실) ;
  • 이광길 (연세대학교 의과대학 병리학교실)
  • Published : 1993.06.30
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Abstract

Proliferative fasciitis is a benign pseudosarcomatous mesenchymal lesion occurring in the subcutis. The lesion occurs clinically as a tumorous mass that develops within a rather short time in elderly patients. We recently experiecened a case of fine needle aspiration cytology of proliferative fasciitis in the left anterior chest wall of a 72 year-old male patient. The smear revealed two types of cells. One was the large and mostly oval cell with one or two nuclei lying at the periphery of the cell body and abundant basophilic cytoplasm like the ganglion cell. The nuclei were round to oval, had vesicular chromatin and contained prominent nucleoli. The other was the spindle shaped fibroblast with an oval nucleus. The differential diagnosis includes a true tumor such as ganglioneuroma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and liposarcoma and therefore fine needle aspiration cytology is very much indicated in order to exclude these possibilities.

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