Angiomyofibroblastoma-like tumor of the scrotum: a case report and review of literature | Zendy

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Angiomyofibroblastoma-like tumor of the scrotum: a case report and review of literature

Author(s) -

Berna Aytaç,

Ulviye Yalçınkaya,

Hakan Vuruşkan

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

turkish journal of pathology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.305

H-Index - 14

eISSN - 1309-5730

pISSN - 1018-5615

DOI - 10.5146/tjpath.2012.01118

Subject(s) - scrotum , pathology , mesenchymal tumor , immunohistochemistry , biology , mesenchymal stem cell , external genitalia , medicine , anatomy

Angiomyofibroblastoma-like tumor is a rare mesenchymal tumor of men. It commonlyoccurs during the fifth to eighth decades of life and mainly involves theinguinoscrotal region. It is derived from perivascular stem cells and hascapacity of lipoid and myofibroblastic differentiation. Histopathologically thistumor in the male genitalia mimics female angiomyofibroblastoma but there aremorphological and immunohistochemical differences between these lesions. Wereport a case of an angiomyofibroblastoma-like tumor that arose in the scrotalregion in a 40-year-old man.

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