Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of tibial adamantinoma: a case report.
Adamantinoma of long bones is a rare, primary bone tumor of controversial histogenesis, usually arising in the anterior midshaft of the tibia. This slowly growing, radiolucent, expansile tumor eventually causes thinning or destruction of overlying cortical bone. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is a rapid, safe, and relatively painless means of obtaining diagnostic material from bone tumors, provided the mass has eroded through or markedly attenuated the overlying cortex. A case is presented of primary adamantinoma of the tibia which was sampled first by FNAB and subsequently by surgical biopsy.
Hales
M S
MS
Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143.
Ferrell
L D
LD
D000328:Adult; D000564:Ameloblastoma / Q000473:pathology*; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D004848:Epithelium / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013194:Staining and Labeling