Nasal blastoma: a light and electron microscopic study.
The first light and electron microscopic study of a nasal blastoma is reported. Analogous to a pulmonary blastoma, the tumor is composed of well-differentiated squamous and glandular epithelial elements surrounded by a spindle cell stroma. The spindle stromal cell is a myofibroblast. Eighteen months after complete surgical removal of the tumor and radiation therapy, the patient is clinically free of disease.
D000328:Adult; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000648:ultrastructure*