A Rare Case: Malignant Granular Cell Tumor in Axillary Region

Öz 106 Burak Ergün Tatar, Caner Gelbal, Melihcan Sezgiç, Perçin Karakol, Can Uslu, Selva Kabul University of Health Sciences, İstanbul Bağcılar Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Plastic Surgery, İstanbul, Turkey CASE REPORT Address for Correspondence: Burak Ergün Tatar, University of Health Sciences, İstanbul Bağcılar Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Plastic Surgery, İstanbul, Turkey E-mail: burakerguntatar@gmail.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5446-1940 Received: 10.09.2019 Accepted: 11.11.2019 Cite this article as: Tatar BE, Gelbal C, Sezgiç M, Karakol P, Uslu C, Kabul S. A Rare Case: Malignant Granular Cell Tumor in Axillary Region. Bagcilar Med Bull 2019;4(4):106-109 ©Copyright 2019 by the Health Sciences University, Bagcilar Training and Research Hospital Bagcilar Medical Bulletin published by Galenos Publishing House. Introduction Granular cell tumor (GCT) is a rare soft tissue tumor that is usually seen in the head, neck, skin, abdomen, upper extremity, breast and female genital organs (1). It was first described in 1854 by Weber and Virchow (2) in a patient’s tongue. Also it was defined by Abrikossoff (3) in 1926 in the breast and named as granular cell myoblastoma. It is generally seen in African-American women in the perimenopausal period (4). Although estrogen and progesterone may be thought to play role for pathogenesis, most cases are hormone receptor negative. Bagcilar Med Bull 2019;4(4):106-109 DO I: 10.4274/BMB.galenos.2019.09.014