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Morphological and immunophenotypic features of primary and metastatic giant cell tumour of bone.
Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology - 1 Jan 2010
Alberghini M, Kliskey K, Krenacs T, Picci P, Kindblom L, Forsyth R, Athanasou N A
Abstract excerpt
Giant cell tumour of bone (GCTB) is a primary tumour of bone that may rarely, in the absence of malignant cytological features, produce metastatic lesions, most commonly in the lungs. Whether these lung nodules represent true neoplastic secondaries or implants derived from the primary tumour is not certain. In this study, we have analysed the morphological and immunophenotypic features of 19 conventional GCTBs...
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