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Report of a Case

DÉSIRÉ J. A. REBELLO, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1958;78(1):85-88.

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Granular-cell myoblastoma is a tumor which is rarely encountered in the skin. Of the reported cases, 33% have occurred in the tongue; only about 20% of these tumors have been found in the skin.¹ This tumor has, however, been observed in various organs, including the external auditory meatus, the bronchi, the common bile duct,² the maxilla, the parotid gland, the larynx, the orbit, the heart, the esophagus, the bladder, the urethra perineum, the anal region, and the ovary. Characteristically, it is a slowly growing, nondistinctive, sessile or pendunculated asymptomatic nodule which is usually solitary and which may eventually ulcerate. Paroxysmal pain has been a symptom in some patients. Multiple lesions are the exception rather than the rule. Malignant alteration with metastases may occur on rare occasions.³ It is difficult to classify malignant granular-cell myoblastoma. There are some who feel that it is malignant de . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Cincinnati

From the Department of Dermatology of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 10, 1958.

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