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- Title
Further evidence for adipocytic differentiation by the neoplastic myoepithelium.
- Authors
Ide, F.; Tanaka, A.; Kusama, K.
- Abstract
Lipomatous pleomorphic adenoma (PA)/myoepithelioma is rare. Nevertheless, adipocytic differentiation in salivary gland tumors is a well-known phenomenon. As extensive lipometaplasia occurs primarily in adenomas with myoepithelial participation, circumstantial evidence implicates neoplastic myoepithelium (NME), especially the spindle type, as a key partaker. We report here a unique PA that represents an equivocal transition from the epithelioid NME to adipocytes in recurrent lesions but not in a primary tumor.
- Subjects
EPITHELIAL tumors; CELL differentiation; FAT cells; ADENOMA; ORAL diseases; ORAL medicine
- Publication
Journal of Oral Pathology & Medicine, 2007, Vol 36, Issue 3, p187
- ISSN
0904-2512
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0714.2007.00481.x