RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Malignant fibrous histiocytomas of salivary glands
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 946
OP 953
DO 10.1136/jcp.35.9.946
VO 35
IS 9
A1 E Benjamin
A1 S Wells
A1 H Fox
A1 NL Reeve
A1 F Knox
YR 1982
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/35/9/946.abstract
AB The light microscopic, immunohistological and ultrastructural findings in two cases of malignant fibrous histiocytoma arising in salivary glands are presented and the features of seven previously reported cases are reviewed. This neoplasm is extremely rare in this site and may pose problems in diagnosis. It has to be distinguished from other spindled cell tumours, in particular from epithelial tumours of predominantly spindled cell pattern; immunohistological markers for histiocytic cells may be of value. The histogenesis of this neoplasm is controversial but our electron microscopic findings support an origin from mesenchymal cells which differentiate along a broad fibrohistiocytic spectrum.