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Tumors and Tumorlike Lesions of Bone

Abstract

Definition, WHO: “A benign lesion characterized by the presence of spindle-celled fibrous tissue with a storiform pattern and containing a variable number of multinucleated giant cells, hemosiderin pigment and lipid-bearing histiocytes (xanthoma cells).”

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    Fritz Schajowicz M.D. (Head, Professor of Pathology, Director of the Latin American Registry of Bone Pathology, Visiting Distinguished Professor)

  2. National University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Fritz Schajowicz M.D. (Head, Professor of Pathology, Director of the Latin American Registry of Bone Pathology, Visiting Distinguished Professor)

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