shirish_sss Forum Senior
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| | 09/24/03 - 10:13 AM  
 
   
 
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which are the malignancies where you find histological appearance of pssammoma bodies..............????????????????????/
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| Yulia Forum Elite
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| | 09/24/03 - 11:24 AM  
 
   
 
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Psammoma bodies can be seen in following malignancies: -Ovarian serous papillary adenocarcinoma, -Thyroid papillary adenocarcinoma, -Malignant mesothelioma
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| cherry Forum Newbie
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| | 09/24/03 - 11:50 AM  
 
   
 
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hello, looks like any papillary carcinoma will have them, these are the ones i know :roll: ,do some research on these.... pliz let me know what you eventually come up with. papillary carcinoma of thyroid, NEURILEMONA..(inheited psammomatousmelanotic variant), MENINGIOMA--Although not prominent, whorls are present (calcified whorls are termed psammoma bodies). Borderline OVARIAN tumors......... are a subset of epithelial ovarian tumors that have a very favorable prognosis. .....Psammoma bodies, cellular atypia, and desmoplastic fibrosis are observed in some instances PAPILLARY ADENOCARCINOMA..of the sigmoid colon...
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| | 09/24/03 - 12:40 PM  
 
   
 
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I thought the question asked about malignancies... Meningioma, i agree, can be aggressively invasive, but neurilemoma is benign schwannoma. I am not sure about ALL papillary carcinomas having psammoma bodies as a permanent feature...
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| cherry Forum Newbie
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| | 09/24/03 - 01:04 PM  
 
   
 
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ok, will go look it up
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