Fibro-osseous lesions

CNS tumor
Mesenchymal and other tumors
Fibro-osseous lesions

Topic Completed: 1 January 2006

Revised: 3 January 2019, last major update January 2006

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Definition / general | Treatment | Microscopic (histologic) description

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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