TY - JOUR T1 - ELastic tissue in meningeal fibroblastomas so-called "dural endotheliomas" AU - VAN WAGENEN WP Y1 - 1929/04/01 N1 - 10.1001/archsurg.1929.01140130719046 JO - Archives of Surgery SP - 1621 EP - 1625 VL - 18 IS - 4 N2 - It was my good fortune to find in Professor Spielmeyer's collection of tumors of the brain a benign meningeal tumor—meningeal fibroblastoma—or as it is more widely known, a "dural endothelioma" which seems to offer well nigh conclusive evidence of the ability of the type cell of this tumor to form elastic tissue. This is of interest since it adds still another bit of evidence, though indirect, of the potential fibroblastic nature of the cells of this tumor. Fibroglia fibrils, collagen fibrils and elastic fibers are the well known products of cells potentially fibroblastic. As Mallory has pointed out, elastic tissue may and often does grow out from the dura into these tumors where it is being invaded. It may likewise arise within the tumor from the stroma or the blood vessels. In this particularly favorable specimen the elastic tissue did not seem to arise from either of these sources. The SN - 0272-5533 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archsurg.1929.01140130719046 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1929.01140130719046 ER -