Soft tissue
General
Architectural patterns
Author: Komal Arora, M.D.
Topic Completed: 1 July 2012
Minor changes: 11 September 2020
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Definition / generalCite this page: Arora K. Architectural patterns. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/softtissuearchitecturalpatterns.html. Accessed April 16th, 2021.
Definition / general
- Alveolar: alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, alveolar soft parts sarcoma
- Fascicular: fibromatosis, fibrosarcoma, neural tumors (benign or malignant), smooth muscle tumors, synovial sarcoma
- Glandular: adenocarcinoma, biphasic synovial sarcoma, glandular MPNST
- Lobular: clear cell sarcoma, epithelioid sarcoma, extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma
- Palisading: palisading intranodal myofibroblastoma, Schwann cells (neural tumors), smooth muscle tumors, spindle cell lipoma, synovial sarcoma
- Pericytic vascular: mesenchymal chondrosarcoma, MFH, myopericytoma, solitary fibrous tumor / hemangiopericytoma, synovial sarcoma
- Plexiform: nerve sheath tumors (neurofibroma, schwannoma), plexiform fibrous histiocytoma
- Plexiform vascular: low grade fibromyxoid sarcoma, myxofibrosarcoma, myxoid liposarcoma, nodular fasciitis
- Storiform: dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP), fibrohistiocytic tumors, dedifferentiated liposarcoma, low grade fibromyxoid sarcoma, MFH, perineurioma
