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| Year : 2005 | Volume
: 42
| Issue : 4 | Page : 211-214 |
Follicular dendritic cell tumour of tonsil - Is it an under-diagnosed entity?
R Bothra1, PS Pai1, P Chaturvedi1, TA Majeed1, C Singh2, S Gujral2, SV Kane2
1 Department of surgical oncology,Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
2 Department of Pathology,Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
Correspondence Address:
P S Pai
Department of surgical oncology,Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai
India
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PMID: 16391442 
Neoplasms of follicular dendritic cells are uncommon and while majority of them occur in lymph nodes, they are increasingly recognized at varied sites such as abdominal viscera. Tonsil is the most common extra nodal site for occurrence of FDCT in the head and neck region. We describe three cases of follicular dendritic cell tumour occurring in the tonsil.
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