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Table of Contents
Definition / General | Case Reports | Clinical Images | Micro Description | Positive Stains | Differential DiagnosisDefinition / 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
Micro 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
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