| fibroid tumour | Old term for certain fibromas and leiomyomas. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Landschutz tumour | A transplantable, possibly isoantigenic, highly virulent neoplasm which can be grown in any strain of mice; the host is killed in a few days by what is apparently an anaplastic carcinoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| leydig cell tumour | The most common nongerminal tumour of the testis, derived from the leydig cells. It is rarely malignant. This tumour appears among 1-3% of testicular tumours and although they may be seen in children, the median age of appearance is 60 years. They are sometimes seen in women as ovarian tumours. Clinically, symptoms are usually related to the endocrine abnormalities induced by this tumour. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Lindau's tumour | <oncology, tumour> A haemangioma, or type of tumour composed of blood vessel or angioblast cells, which occurs in the brain. (09 Oct 1997) |
| low malignant potential tumour | A neoplasm of the ovary, usually arising in young women, composed of complex epithelial hyperplasia without stromas invasion; may recur if incompletely removed surgically, but is clinically less aggressive than carcinoma. Synonym: low malignant potential tumour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lymphocytes, tumour-infiltrating | Lymphocytes that show specificity for autologous tumour cells. Ex vivo isolation and culturing of til with interleukin-2, followed by reinfusion into the patient, is one form of adoptive immunotherapy of cancer. (12 Dec 1998) |