PSAMMOMA BODIES

PSAMMOMA BODIES IN DIFFERENT PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
  • Head and neck
    • Canalicular adenoma of salivary gland
    • Low grade nasopharyngeal adenocarcinoma
    • Oncocytic or oxyphilic adenoma of salivary gland
    • Acinic cell carcinoma of salivary gland
    • Calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor (Pindborg tumor)
  • Central nervous system
    • Meningiomas – meningothelial, transitional, psammomatous and secretory meningiomas
    • Optic nerve sheath meningioma
    • Meningioangiomatosis (NF2 related hamartomas)
  • Breast
    • Low grade ductal carcinoma in-situ
    • Invasive micropapillary carcinoma of invasive ductal carcinoma
  • Endocrine
    • Prolactinoma
    • Somatostatinoma
    • Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm of pancreas
    • Hyalinizing trabecular adenoma of thyroid
    • Papillary carcinoma of thyroid
  • Gastrointestinal tract
    •  Duodenal carcinoid
  • Renal
    • Metanephric adenoma
    • Renal papillary adenoma
    • Oncocytic Renal cell carcinoma
    • Papillary renal cell carcinoma
    • Xp11.2 translocation renal cell carcinoma
  • Male genital tract
    • Basal cell hyperplasia of prostate
  • Female genital tract
    • Leydig cell tumor
    • Large cell calcifying Sertoli cell tumor
    • Papillary serous carcinoma of ovary
    • Papillary serous variant of endometrial adenocarcinoma
    • Transitional cell carcinoma of ovary
    • Undifferentiated carcinoma of ovary
    • Ovarian carcinoid 
    • Serous (Papillary) variant of HPV associated cervical adenocarcinoma
  • Peritoneum
    • Mesothelial hyperplasia
    • Calcifying fibrous pseudotumor of peritoneum/soft tissue
    • Well differentiated papillary mesotheliomas
    • Peritoneal serous tumors (psammocarcinoma)
  • Soft tissue
    • Juvenile psammomatoid variant of ossifying fibroma
    • Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor
    • Pseudotumor of tenosynovitis
    • Desmoplastic nested spindle cell tumor (Calcifying nested stromal – epithelial tumor)
  • Mediastinal
    • Primary adenocarcinoma of thymus
  • Peripheral nervous system
    • Psammomatous melanotic schwannoma
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