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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:1256
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Editorial

"Invading papillary fibroelastoma"

Robert T. Ownbey, MD*

Department of Pathology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa.

Received for publication August 2, 2006; accepted for publication August 25, 2006.

* Address for reprints: Robert T. Ownbey, MD, Department of Pathology, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15th St, Philadelphia, PA 19102 (Email: Robert.Ownbey@drexelmed.edu).

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GoI found the brief communication by Dr Fayad and colleagues1Go regarding a case of "invasive" papillary fibroelastoma (PFE) interesting. Certainly this seems to be an uncommon variant of a rare lesion. However, use of the term invading has certain connotations, at least to a pathologist. This term is typically reserved to describe malignant processes wherein there is destruction of normal tissue. The authors make no claim that they are using the term invading in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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