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tumoral cell appearance

Wednesday 12 November 2003

tumoral cell types

Semiology

 small cells : small cell tumors / small cell carcinomas
 tumoral round cells : round cell tumors

 tumoral fusiform cells : furisform cell tumors / spindle cell tumors
 tumoral rhabdoid cells : rhabdoid cell tumors / rhabdoid tumors
 tumoral signet-ring cells : signet ring cell tumors
 tumoral oncocytic cells / oncocytes / Hürtle cell : oncocytic tumors

 tumoral spumous cells (lipid-laden tumoral cells )
 tumoral plasmacytoid cells : plasmocytoid cell tumors
 tumoral giant cells : giant cell tumors
 tumoral cuboidal cells
 tumoral columnar cells

 tumoral large cells (large cell tumors )

 tumoral cells with eccentric nuclei with pale cytoplasm

  • small cells with eccentric nuclei with pale cytoplasm
    • signet ring cells
  • large cells with eccentric nuclei with pale cytoplasm
    • lipocytic cells

 tumoral polygonal cells
 tumoral cells with abundant cytoplasm

  • large cells with vacuolated cytoplasm
    • sebaceous cells
    • hibernomatous cells

 tumoral small round cells (small round cell tumors )
 tumoral large round cells (large round cell tumors )
 small cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm and eccentric nuclei (small myoid or plasmacytoid cells )
 large cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm and eccentric nuclei

    • large myoid cells

 stellate cells
 ghost cells
 multinucleate tumoral cells (giant tumoral cells )
 lymphocytic appearance
 plasmacytoid appearance
 spherical eosinophilic bodies
 ganglion-like cells
 Paneth-like cells

Specific cells

 Sternberg cells
 Hodgkin cells
 rhabdoid cells
 signet ring cells
 lipocytic cells
 myoid cells
 tumoral rhabdomyoblasts

Images

 ganglion-like cells in proliferative myositis

See also

 tumoral cells
 tumors

 tumor diagnosis