Chondrosarcoma pathophysiology
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Shivali Marketkar, M.B.B.S. [2]
Overview
Pathophysiology
Microscopic Pathology
Each chondrosarcoma subtype has specific characteristics:
Myxoid chondrosarcoma
- Myxoid background.
- small cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm.
Clear cell chondrosarcoma
- Lobules of uniform to polymorphic densely-packed large cells.
- Well defined pushing borders.
- Clear to intensively acidophilic granular cytoplasm with vacuoles.
- Central nuclei with occasional prominent nucleoli.
- Low mitotic rate.
- Clear cell areas lack production of hyaline chondroid matrix.
- Areas with osteoclast-type giant cells mixed with small trabeculae of reactive bone.
- May contain conventional low-grade chondrosarcoma.
- May have secondary aneurysmal bone cyst changes.
Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma
Shown below is a micrograph of chondrosarcoma.(H&E stain)
Video
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