Azzopardi J G, Tanda F, Salm R
Diagn Histopathol. 1983 Apr-Jun;6(2):69-76.
Tenosynovial fibroma or angiofibroma of tendon sheath is a distinctive clinicopathological entity occurring mainly in young and middle-aged men and affecting dominantly the distal extremities. Fingers, hands and wrists are the site of 80 per cent of cases. Palmar aspects of hands and plantar aspects of foot are preferentially involved. The trunk and neck are seldom affected. They are generally small, firm, sometimes painful lesions attached to tendon sheath and/or tendon. The lesion must be distinguished from a variety of benign lesions including nodular fasciitis, angiomyoma and giant-cell tumour of tendon sheath. It can also be confused with sarcoma, including synovial sarcoma, because of the presence in it of characteristic slit-like spaces which have been identified as vascular rather than synovial spaces by virtue of the Factor VIII content of their lining cells.
腱鞘纤维瘤或腱鞘血管纤维瘤是一种独特的临床病理实体，主要发生于中青年男性，主要累及四肢远端。80%的病例发生于手指、手和腕部。手部掌侧和足部跖侧更易受累。躯干和颈部很少受累。它们通常是附着于腱鞘和/或肌腱的小而硬的、有时疼痛的病变。该病变必须与多种良性病变相鉴别，包括结节性筋膜炎、血管肌瘤和腱鞘巨细胞瘤。它也可能与肉瘤混淆，包括滑膜肉瘤，因为其中存在特征性的裂隙样间隙，根据其衬里细胞的VIII因子含量，已确定这些间隙为血管间隙而非滑膜间隙。
