KROK 1 2012 – Question 175 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A 50 year old patient underwent resection of tumour of large intestine wall. Microscopically it presents itself as fascicles of divergent collagen fibers of different thickness and form and some monomorphous fusiform cells that are irregularly distributed among the fibers. Cellular atypia is not evident. What tumour is it?
- A. Fibromyoma
- B. Fibrosarcoma
- C. Desmoma
- D. Hard fibroma
- E. Soft fibroma
Hint
Weigh the amount of collagen against the number of cells and note the absence of atypia, then decide which kind of fibrous tumour that ratio describes.
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