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pseudosarcomatous

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pseudosarcomatous /pseu·do·sar·co·ma·tous/ (-sahr-ko´mah-tus) mimicking sarcoma; used of both benign and malignant lesions that histologically resemble sarcoma.
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It was first described in 1955 by Konwaler et al, who called the lesion subcutaneous pseudosarcomatous fibromatosis, t In the early 1960s, the disease became known as nodular fasciitis; other terms used in the literature include proliferative fasciitis, infiltrative fasciitis, productive fasciitis, subcutaneous fibromatosis, and nodular fibrositis.
Nodular fasciitis of the nasal cavity: a case report by Mullin, David; Lindsay, Fred W.; Keefe, Michael A. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
Rarely, conventional osteoblastomas may have regions of marked cytologic atypia similar to that seen in symplastic leiomyomas or ancient neurilemmoma, so-called pseudomalignant or pseudosarcomatous changes.
Epithelioid and epithelial neoplasms of bone by Deyrup, Andrea T.; Montag, Anthony G. / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Carcinoma of the breast with pseudosarcomatous metaplasia.
Metaplastic breast carcinoma with osseous differentiation: a case ... by Tucker, J. Allan / Southern Medical Journal
 
 
 
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