Clear Cell Tumour

A benign or malignant neoplasm composed of clear cells that may be of any embryologic (endo-, ecto-, meso-) or neuroectodermal origin; the cytoplasmic clearing may be real—lipid, mucopolysaccharide and mucosubstance—or artifactual, due to post-fixation shrinkage of cytoplasmic content away from an intact and more rigid cell membrane
Examples, clear cell tumours Balloon cell melanoma, signet ring cell carcinomas, renal cell, adrenal, ovary, parathyroid and thyroid carcinomas, clear cell tumours of tendons & aponeuroses, germ cell tumours—e.g., seminomas, dysgerminoma—histiocytosis X, lymphoma—B- and T- clear cell lymphomas—myeloma, clear cell type, myxoid lesions—benign and malignant—paraganglioma, and xanthoma. See Clear cell carcinoma

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