PEDUNCULATED VULVAL AGGRESSIVE ANGIOMYXOMA: A DIAGNOSIS OFTEN OVERLOOKED
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
Aggressive angiomyxoma is a rare, locally infiltrative mesenchymal tumor found usually in women of reproductive age group. It is a slow-growing, low-grade neoplasm involving the pelvis and perineum with a high risk for local recurrence. Mesenchymal tumors like these present a diagnostic dilemma because a wide variety of them exhibit many overlapping clinical and histological features, requiring the help of immunohistochemistry for diagnostic confirmation. Recurrence even after complete surgical excision is one of the unique characteristics of Aggressive angiomyxoma, which otherwise is a non-malignant tumor. We present a case of a 40 year old female with a huge pedunculated swelling in the vulva, which was suspected to be a fibroepithelial polyp/lipoma on clinical examination and was finally diagnosed as aggressive angiomyxoma after complete work up
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Vijaya C, Archana Shetty, Savitha Kumar, Lekha M. B
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