Fine-needle aspiration biopsy diagnosis of "invasive" temporomandibular joint pigmented villonodular synovitis: clinical, imaging, and cytopathologic correlation. From: Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Date: February 1, 2002| Author: Shapiro, Steven L.; McMenomey, Sean O.; Alexander, Priscilla; Schmidt, Waldemar A. | COPYRIGHT 2002 College of American Pathologists. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

* The clinical and aspiration cytologic details of a case of temporomandibular joint pigmented villonodular synovitis are presented and correlated with imaging, surgical, histopathologic, and clinical follow-up findings; the origin of such lesions is discussed. The lesion originally presented in a 36-year-old, otherwise healthy, white man as a unilateral mass involving the temporal fossa and temporomandibular joint region. The tumor's extent was defined by magnetic resonance imaging and com...