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[An aggressive inguinal (parafunicular) angiomyxoma in a male patient]
1Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Central de Asturias (Hospital Covadonga), Oviedo, España.
Objective:
To report a case of aggressive inguinal angiomyxoma in a male patient.
Methods:
An 82-year-old male patient presented with a well-defined, 6 cm. parafunicular mass in the right groin. The mass was located adjacent to the spermatic cord and had been noted 8 years earlier. Patient evaluation included CT, ultrasound and immunohistochemical studies.
Results:
The CT and US findings suggested lymph node enlargement. Microscopic analysis showed a myxoid tumor with partially infiltrating margins, vascular channels of small-sized vessels with thick walls occasionally with hyalinization and spindle-shaped or stellate mesenchymal cells with ill-defined margins without atypia or mitosis that were positive for vimentin and negative for actin, desmin, keratins, CD34 and protein S-100. No tumor recurrence or metastasis has been observed at 26-months' follow-up.
Conclusions:
To our knowledge, this is one of the few cases of inguinal angiomyxoma in male patients; 16 have been reported to date. This neoplasm appears to originate from pelvic soft tissue fibroblasts.