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carcinoma

Malignant tumour arising from the skin, the glandular tissues, or the mucous membranes that line the gut and lungs.



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Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) showed predominantly spindle cells with scattered lymphocytes (figure 1, B), suggesting a differential diagnosis that included thymoma, spindle cell carcinoma, spindle cell variants of medullary and anaplastic thyroid carcinomas, and a spindle cell variant of lymphoma.
Gersell DJ, Katzenstein AA: Spindle cell carcinoma of the breast.
Histologic sections showed an anaplastic lesion composed of pleomorphic spindle cells that formed broad, haphazardly arranged fascicles that surrounded scattered epithelial islands (Figure 2, D), representing a poorly differentiated spindle cell carcinoma or carcinosarcoma.
 
 
 
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