Atypical neurothekeoma: A new case and review of the literature

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 435-437

  Campanati, Anna ^a,b   Brandozzi, Giuliano ^a   Sisti, Stefano ^a   Bernardini, Maria Luisa ^a   Offidani, Anna Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Regionale Torrette   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MITOSIS INDEX; NERVE SHEATH; NEUROTHEKEOMA; PERIPHERAL NERVE; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TISSUE SECTION;

ADULT; CHIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROTHEKEOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247340487     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: 16000560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2006.00637.x     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Busam KJ, Mentzel T, Colpaert C, Barnhill RL, Fletcher CD. Atypical or worrisome features in cellular neurothekeoma: a study of 10 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 1998 22:1067.
2. Barnhill RL, Mihm MC. Cellular neurothekeoma. A distinctive variant of neurothekeoma mimicking melanocytic tumors. Am J Surg Pathol 1990 14:186.
3. Calonje E, Wilson-Jones E, Smith NP, Fletcher CDM. Cellular neurothekeoma: an epithelioid variant of pilar leiomyoma? Morphological and immunohistochemical analysis of a series. Histopathology 1992 20:397.
4. Argenyi ZB, LeBoit PE, Santa Cruz D, Swanson PE, Kutzner H. Nerve sheath myxoma (neurothekeoma) of the skin. Light microscopic and immunohistochemical reappraisal of the cellular variant. J Cutan Pathol 1993 20:294.
5. Barnhill RL, Dickersin GR, Nickeleit V, et al. Studies on the cellular origin of neurothekeoma: clinical, light microscopic, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural observations. J Am Acad Dermatol 1991 25:80.
6. Wang AR, May D, Bourne P, Scott G. PGP9.5: a marker for cellular neurothekeoma. Am J Surg Pathol 1999 23:1401.
7. Mahalingam M, Alter JN, Bhawan J. Multiple cellular neurothekeomas - a case report and review on the role of immunohistochemistry as a histologic adjunct. J Cutan Pathol 2006 33:51.
8. Bhatia S, Chu P, Weinberg JM. Atypical cellular neurothekeoma. Dermatol Surg 2003 29:1154.
9. Andea A, Satter E, Benbenisty K, Argenyi Z, Metcalf J. Atypical epithelioid cellular neurothekeoma: case report with immunohistochemical and ultrastructural studies. Am J Dermatopathol 2005 27:529.