myxochondroma
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myxochondroma (plural myxochondromas or myxochondromata)
- An unusual benign tumor of cartilaginous skeletal tissues (bones, ligaments, and tendons) that is a type of chondroma with myxoid (mucoid) degeneration of chondrocytes.
- 1929, Wakeley, CP, “Specimen of myxochondroma of the base of the skull, causing pressure on the brain”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, volume 22, number 5, PMID 19986915, pages 703:
- Microscopically the tumour is a myxochondroma, with mucoid degeneration affecting the cartilage cells.
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