title: Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of bone: initial diagnosis by aspiration biopsy cytology.
abstract: Aspiration biopsy cytology by fine needle is becoming a popular diagnostic procedure for soft-tissue lesions; it also can be used successfully to diagnose some lesions from bone. The value of this procedure for making the initial diagnosis is illustrated by a case in which a malignant fibrous histiocytoma from a skull bone afflicted with Paget's disease was aspirated and interpreted as a sarcoma. This was later confirmed and subclassified by histology and electron microscopy from the tissue.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19151.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kannan
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: von Ruden
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000473:pathology; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D010001:Osteitis Deformans / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology