giant-cell tumor

giant-cell tumor
giant-cell tumor n an osteolytic tumor affecting the metaphyses and epiphyses of long bones, composed of a stroma of spindle cells containing dispersed multinucleate giant cells, and usu. being benign but sometimes malignant called also osteoclastoma

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