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Herringbone Pattern

Imaging A pattern which may be seen on a plain abdominal film in patients with acute abdomen, in which loops of small intestine are distended with air, contiguous, and the mesenteric fat is comparatively dense; the appearance is due to prominence of the valvulae conniventes
Pathology A descriptor for the arrangement of malignant fibroblasts when viewed by low-power light microscopy, in which the elongated nuclei are positioned at sharp angles to each other in linear arrays, a pattern characteristic of fibrosarcoma, which may be seen in malignant schwannoma and in benign nodular fasciitis; a herringbone pattern is composed of rows of parallel lines with adjacent rows slanting in reverse direction

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