Open AccessPROLIFERATIVE FASCIITIS
Author(s) -
Kitano Motoo,
Iwasaki Hiroshi,
Enjoji Munetomo
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
acta patholigica japonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 74
ISSN - 0001-6632
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1977.tb00170.x
Subject(s) - basophilic , nodular fasciitis , pathology , infiltration (hvac) , lesion , medicine , biology , physics , thermodynamics
The clinical and pathologic features of eight cases of proliferative fasciitis, a variant of nodular fasclitis, were described. The lesion affected adults older than 51 years of age. It involved various parts of the body and grew rapidly in most cases. Follow‐up information, however, revealed that the patients took a benign clinical course after a local excision. Microscopically, a diffuse proliferation of fibroblastic cells intermingled with a number of large basophilic cells resembling ganglion cells was characteristic, and was accompanied by slight lymphocytic Infiltration and by sllght fibrinous exudation and hemorrhage. The large basophilic cells seemed to be metamorphosed from cells of fibroblastic series. ACTA PATH. JAP. 27, 455–493, 1977.