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Fibro-osseous lesions


Nat Pernick, M.D.

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Definition / general | Treatment | Microscopic (histologic) description
Cite this page: Pernick N. Fibro-osseous lesions. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/cnstumorfibroosseous.html. Accessed October 21st, 2019.
Definition / general
  • Also called calcifying pseudoneoplasms of neural axis
  • Uncommon
  • May be associated with dura along vertebral column
  • Probably reactive
  • References: Am J Surg Pathol 1999;23:1270
Treatment
  • Wide excision
Microscopic (histologic) description
  • Various combinations of palisading spindle cells, epithelioid cells and multinucleated cells in fibrous stroma and bone
  • Nodular chondromyxoid-like matrix
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