Article: Diagnosis of chondroid lipoma by fine-needle aspiration biopsy / In reply

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To the Editor.-We read with interest the report by Yang et al1 concerning chondroid lipoma (CL). As stated by the authors, this is a recently described entity with very few cytologic descriptions. Recently, we had the opportunity to study fine-needle aspiration biopsy material from a case of CL and would like to compare our findings with those reported previously.1-3

The patient presented with a nodular, 4-cm, subcutaneous lesion in the leg. Smears were hemorrhagic with myxoid material and occasional metachromatic, fibrillary, chondromyxoid stromal fragments (Figure 1) and clusters of multivacuolated lipo-- blast-like cells (Figure 2). The lesion was interpreted as a ...

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