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Submandibular myofibroma: a case report
Claiton Heitz1, Roger Correa de Barros Berthold, Heloísa Har Machado
1Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, profheitz@hotmail.com.
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
|February 14, 2013
Abstract
Purpose:
Myofibroma is a rare benign spindle cell neoplasm, and the aim of the present study was to carry out a literature review and present a clinical case of a patient with a myofibroma in the submandibular region and its management.
Conclusions:
Diagnosis of myofibroma can be reached by a histopathologic and immunohistochemical analysis and surgical excision is the treatment of choice.