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Definition / general | Case reports | Clinical images | Microscopic (histologic) description | Positive stains | Differential diagnosisCite this page: Shankar V. Nerve sheath myxoma. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/softtissuenervesheathmyxoma.html. Accessed April 26th, 2019.
Definition / general
- Controversial tumor due to disputed relationship with neurothekeoma
- Skin, soft tissue, intraspinal
- Resembles myxoma but plumper, epithelial-like cells; fascicular or plexiform arrangement
- Based on the amount of myxoid stroma, nerve sheath myxoma is divided into myxoid (classical), mixed and cellular types
Case reports
- 32 year old woman with painless enlarging gingival mass (Head Neck Pathol 2010;4:242)
- 33 year old woman with painful leg lesion (Dermatol Online J 2007;13:14)
Clinical images
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Tender, solitary firm papule
Microscopic (histologic) description
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Cutaneous, courtesy of Mark R. Wick, M.D.
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Lower leg lesion
Gingival lesion is well demarcated
Thick, short collagen bundles and focal myxoid areas
S100
NSE
Positive stains
- S100 (sporadic)
Differential diagnosis
- Myxoid neurofibroma: S100+ (strong)
- Perineurioma
