Thursday, July 25, 2013
What about this cell with red granular cytoplasm?
I'm working on a high-grade glioma and am coming across scattered presumably neoplastic cells that have course red granular cytoplasm. How does one interpret such cells? Does it raise the possibility of a granular cell astrocytoma? Or are these often present and I've just ignored them until now? Thanks for any help you might be able to provide in the comments section!
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Cells with that type of cytoplasm are not infrequent in anaplastic oligodendrogliomas, Check out Burgers text.
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Thank you, Dr. Murdoch. I'll look that up.....
This tumor turned out to be 1p/19q co-deleted. So, my diagnosis of anaplastic oligodendroglioma (prompted in part by Dr. Murdoch's comment) is supported by the molecular result. Thank you Dr. Murdoch!
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