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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mäkelä, V
• Mattila, S
• Mäkinen, J

Titel

Plasma cell granuloma (histiocytoma) of the lung and pleura. Report on three cases

Ist Teil von

• Acta pathologica et microbiologica Scandinavica. Section A. Pathology, 1972, Vol.80 (5), p.634-640

Ort / Verlag

Denmark

Erscheinungsjahr

1972

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• Some rare benign tumours may occur in the lungs and pleura; they are typically composed of plasma cells, lymphocytes, histiocytes, macrophages and various amounts of fibrous tissue. These tumours are called histiocytomas ( Dubilier 1968, Ivanik & Mlekodaj 1968, Kinare et al. 1965, Titus et al. 1962, Wentworth et al. 1968), plasma cell tumours or plasmacytomas ( Childress et al. 1950, Hellwig 1934, Legrand & Serfati 1968, Pätiälä & Perret 1962), plasma cell granulomas ( Lane et al. 1955), xanthomas ( Scott et al. 1948), xanthomatotic pseudotumors ( Wentworth et al. 1968). Names such as “postinflammatory tumours” ( Umiker & Iverson 1954), “sclerosing haemangioma” ( Liebow & Hubbe 1956, Rubin et al. 1958, Turunen et al. 1957) and “vascular endothelioma” ( Edwards & Taylor 1937) have also been used. Because of this variety of nomenclature it is difficult to find out how many of the growths published under different names actually are granuloma‐like histiocytomas of the lung. However, the number of reported cases may be about thirty. Similar pseudotumours in the pleura have also been reported ( Brown & Johnson 1951, Maisuk 1956). In the present work, the authors present three cases of histiocytoma‐like tumours, two of which occurred in the lungs and one in the pleura. The authors draw attention to the morphological similarity between the pleural tumours and the lung tumours.