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Fariba Binesh1, Reza Nafisi Moghadam2, Masoud Shabani3
1Department of Pathology, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Abstract:
Myopericytoma is a soft tissue tumor with perivascular myoid differentiation. It accounts for 1% of the vascular tumors and involves mostly cutaneous or subcutaneous tissue of the limbs in adults. Malignant myopericytoma is exceedingly rare. A 15-year old girl presented with slowly progressive mass over left shoulder region. Histopathology and immunohistochemistry after complete excision revealed it as malignant myopericytoma.
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