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lymphoepithelioma

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lymphoepithelioma [‚lim·fō‚ep·ə‚thē·lē′ō·mə]
(medicine)
A squamous-cell carcinoma of the nasopharynx whose parenchymal cells resemble elements of the reticuloendothelial system.


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This undifferentiated carcinoma is made up of cells of varying morphology, and it frequently contains clumps of benign T cells intermixed within the tumor mass; as a result, it is also called a lymphoepithelioma.
The histologic features of the right nasopharyngeal specimen were consistent with a typical nasopharyngeal carcinoma of the lymphoepithelioma subtype.
3) Morphologically, MLEL resembles lymphoepithelioma (undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma with lymphoid stroma), and it is often difficult to distinguish MLEL from metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma of the salivary gland.
 
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