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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 usually being benign but sometimes malignant - called also osteoclastoma  .
 
 

 
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