Pathology: elastofibroma

Elastofibroma

  • Hypocellular; ill-defined margins

  • Spindle-stellate cells with a patternless arrangement

  • Scant eosinophilic cytoplasm

  • Monomorphic small ovoid nuclei; inconspicuous mitotic activity

  • Fibrocollagenous background admixed with lobules of mature fat

  • Irregular bundles of eosinophilic elastic fibres resembling "beads on a string"

  • Special stain: elastic trichrome

Elastofibroma

  • Hypocellular; ill-defined margins

  • Spindle-stellate cells with a patternless arrangement

  • Scant eosinophilic cytoplasm

  • Monomorphic small ovoid nuclei; inconspicuous mitotic activity

  • Fibrocollagenous background admixed with lobules of mature fat

  • Irregular bundles of eosinophilic elastic fibres resembling "beads on a string"

  • Special stain: elastic trichrome

Elastofibroma

  • Hypocellular; ill-defined margins

  • Spindle-stellate cells with a patternless arrangement

  • Scant eosinophilic cytoplasm

  • Monomorphic small ovoid nuclei; inconspicuous mitotic activity

  • Fibrocollagenous background admixed with lobules of mature fat

  • Irregular bundles of eosinophilic elastic fibres resembling "beads on a string"

  • Special stain: Verhoeff-van Gieson