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Intranasal myopericytoma. A tumour with perivascular myoid differentiation: the changing nomenclature for haemangiopericytoma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2007

T Wilson ,
H B Hellquist ,
S Ray  and
J Pickles
T Wilson*
Affiliation:
ENT Department, James Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK
H B Hellquist
Affiliation:
Department of Cellular Pathology, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK
S Ray
Affiliation:
ENT Department, Luton & Dunstable Hospital, Luton, UK.
J Pickles
Affiliation:
ENT Department, Luton & Dunstable Hospital, Luton, UK.
*
Address for correspondence: Mr T Wilson, 73 Norfolk Street, Cambridge CB1 2LD, UK. E-mail: t.wilson@doctors.org.uk
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Abstract

We present a case report of a patient who developed a sinonasal myopericytoma treated by surgical excision through a lateral rhinotomy. Some aggressive features on pre-operative computed tomography scanning and the complexity of recent changes in the histological nomenclature for these tumours led to consideration of adjuvant therapy. The close histological relationship between myopericytoma, myofibromatosis, solitary myofibroma and infantile haemangiopericytoma is discussed. This group of lesions constitute a single morphological spectrum with differentiation towards perivascular myoid cells (pericytes). Currently myopericytoma is the most appropriate and accepted term embracing all these entities. A review of the literature has been reassuring in identifying these tumours as benign but with a reasonably high rate of local recurrence (17 per cent). The treatment of choice is surgical excision with further excisions for local recurrence.

Keywords

HistopathologyImmunohistochemistryGlomus TumourParanasal Sinus NeoplasmsRecurrenceSurgeryTerminology
Type
Short Communications
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 121 , Issue 8 , August 2007 , pp. 786 - 789
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 2007

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