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tumor
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tumor: see neoplasm neoplasm or tumor, tissue composed of cells that grow in an abnormal way. Normal tissue is growth-limited, i.e., cell reproduction is equal to cell death.
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tumour (US), tumor
Pathol
a. any abnormal swelling
b. a mass of tissue formed by a new growth of cells, normally independent of the surrounding structures

tumor [′tü·mər]
(medicine)
Any abnormal mass of cells resulting from excessive cellular multiplication.


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The pathologic differential diagnosis includes other metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (atypical carcinoid, pulmonary small-cell carcinoma, and Merkel cell carcinoma), meta-static melanoma, sinonasal small-cell undifferentiated carcinoma, olfactory neuroblastoma, and paraganglioma.
The differential diagnosis of a lesion in the pericaval area and hepatic segments 7 or 8 should include the possibility of a neuroendocrine tumor that is either adrenal or extra-adrenal in origin, along with other primary hepatic neoplasms or metastases.
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