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Granular cell tumors: Review of the parameters determining possible malignancy
Silvia Budiño-Carbonero1, P Navarro-Vergara, J A Rodríguez-Ruiz
1FEA Servicio de Cirugía Oral y Maxilofacial H.U. Puerta de Mar, Cádiz, Spain. pabloman_99@hotmail.com
Medicina Oral : Organo Oficial De La Sociedad Espanola De Medicina Oral Y De La Academia Iberoamericana De Patologia Y Medicina Bucal
|August 26, 2003
Abstract:
The granular cell tumor (GCT) is normally benign in behavior, but occasionally surprises us with local aggressiveness, and in 2% of cases with distant dissemination. Diagnosis of proven malignancy can only be confirmed by the presence of metastasis. We revised the parameters which give rise to a GCT being considered to have malignant behavior in the absence of metastasis, basing our account on a clinical case.