Case Report: A giant myopericytoma involving the occipital region of the scalp - a rare entity

Herein we report a rare case of a giant myopericytoma presenting in a 16-year-old girl as a slowly progressive swelling involving the scalp in the occipital region. It was managed by complete excision. Histological examination of the lesion revealed  spindle-shaped cells forming characteristic roset...

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Autores principales: Munakomi, Sunil, Chaudhary, Pramod
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000Research 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5302154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28232863
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.10505.1
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description Herein we report a rare case of a giant myopericytoma presenting in a 16-year-old girl as a slowly progressive swelling involving the scalp in the occipital region. It was managed by complete excision. Histological examination of the lesion revealed  spindle-shaped cells forming characteristic rosettes around the blood vessels, and positive staining with smooth muscle actin.
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spelling pubmed-53021542017-02-22 Case Report: A giant myopericytoma involving the occipital region of the scalp - a rare entity Munakomi, Sunil Chaudhary, Pramod F1000Res Case Report Herein we report a rare case of a giant myopericytoma presenting in a 16-year-old girl as a slowly progressive swelling involving the scalp in the occipital region. It was managed by complete excision. Histological examination of the lesion revealed  spindle-shaped cells forming characteristic rosettes around the blood vessels, and positive staining with smooth muscle actin. F1000Research 2016-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5302154/ /pubmed/28232863 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.10505.1 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Munakomi S and Chaudhary P http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The author(s) is/are employees of the US Government and therefore domestic copyright protection in USA does not apply to this work. The work may be protected under the copyright laws of other jurisdictions when used in those jurisdictions.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5302154/
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