Myopericytoma

Myopericytoma
Classification and external resources
Micrograph of a myopericytoma. H&E stain.

Myopericytoma, also glomangiopericytoma, is a rare perivascular soft tissue tumour. It is usually benign and typically in the distal extremities.^[1]

It is though to overlap with myofibroma.^[2]

See also

• Glomus tumour

References

1. ^ Zidane A, Arsalane A, Harkat A, et al. (November 2010). "[Myopericytoma: an uncommon chest wall tumor]" (in French). Rev Mal Respir 27 (9): 1089–91. doi:10.1016/j.rmr.2010.09.017. PMID 21111282. 
2. ^ Dray MS, McCarthy SW, Palmer AA, et al. (January 2006). "Myopericytoma: a unifying term for a spectrum of tumours that show overlapping features with myofibroma. A review of 14 cases". J. Clin. Pathol. 59 (1): 67–73. doi:10.1136/jcp.2005.028704. PMC 1860256. PMID 16394283. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1860256.