Meanings of compose of spindle in English

The smears were composed of spindle and plasmacytoid cells, which raised the possibility of medullary carcinoma.

The resected mass was composed of spindle cells that were positive for CD34; and hemangiopericytomatous vessels were focally detected.

Histologically the tumor was predominantly composed of spindle-shaped cells with nuclear palisading and cells that stained positively for S-100 protein.

The other occurred in a 72-year-old man, was composed of spindle-shaped cells, and was initially diagnosed as a localized fibrous mesothelioma.

The tumors were composed of spindle-like, elongated cells, forming characteristic pseudorosettes around vessels and diffusively infiltrating surrounding tissue, trapping neurons between tumor cells.

A microscopic examination showed the tumor to be composed of spindle-shaped cells showing mild nuclear atypia with vague nuclear palisading and scarce mitotic figures.

All the tumors were well circumscribed and composed of spindled to ovoid cells with abundant granular, eosinophilic cytoplasm and vesicular nuclei with small prominent nucleoli.

Microscopically, most of the tumours were composed of spindle cells with varying pigmentation and 0-2 mitoses per 10 high power fields.