CLINICAL CASES   

Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia 2003 December;138(6):487-9

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language: Italian

Myofibroma in the adult

Monti M. ¹, Sacrini F. ¹, Guizzardi M. ¹, Rahal D. ²

¹ Unità Operativa di Dermatologia, Istituto Clinico Humanitas Università degli Studi di Milano, Rozzano (MI) 2 Unità Operativa di Anatomia Patologica, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Università degli Studi di Milano, Rozzano (MI)

Adult myofibroma is an acquired and superficial soft tumor with identical histological features as infantile myofibroma. It is tipically localized in the dermis and hypoderm. Adult Myofibroma is part of a group of tumors showing perivascular myoid differentiation with histologic features of glomangioperycitoma, myopericytoma and myofibroma. It likely arises from a pluripotent endothelial cell capable of differentiating along muscle, pericyttic and glomus cell lines. A case of solitary adult myofibroma in a 56-year-old woman with a high tendency to relapse after surgical exeresis, is described.