Nerve sheath myxoma

Soft tissue
Peripheral nerve
Nerve sheath myxoma

Author: Vijay Shankar, M.D.

Revised: 30 January 2018, last major update November 2012

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Cite this page: Shankar, V. Nerve sheath myxoma. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/softtissuenervesheathmyxoma.html. Accessed April 21st, 2018.

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)

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