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Elastic fibers in elastofibroma dorsi by fine‐needle aspiration
Author(s) -
Domanski Henryk A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
diagnostic cytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1097-0339
pISSN - 8755-1039
DOI - 10.1002/dc.22959
Subject(s) - medicine , scapula , fine needle aspiration , anatomy , soft tissue , pathology , biopsy
Fine‐needle aspiration (FNA) features of elastofibroma dorsi (EFD) in a 56‐year‐old woman were evaluated. The patient presented with 5 cm soft tissue mass located between the inferior part of scapula and the chest wall. FNA smears were hypercellular, characterized by a mixture of uniform spindle cells, mature adipocytes, and collagen tissue fragments in varying proportions. The cytological findings included abundant degenerated elastic fibers presented as linear (“braid‐like”) and globular bodies with shell‐like and stellate appearances with serrate borders, permitting a diagnosis of EFD. Occurrence of degenerated elastic fibers in FNA smears of elastofibroma is a highly diagnostic sign in the typical clinical setting and eliminates the need for preoperative histological examination. Diagn. Cytopathol. 2014;42:609–611. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.