Open AccessA benign, low-grade myofibroblastic lesion mimicking a sarcoma
Author(s) -
Veena Patel,
Ambareen Naqvi,
Sonita Koshal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of surgical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.14
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 2042-8812
DOI - 10.1093/jscr/rjaa020
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , lesion , histopathological examination , sarcoma , differential diagnosis , medical diagnosis , pathology , radiology
Benign myofibroblastic lesions can clinically and histologically be mistaken for sarcoma. Excessive and potentially disfiguring surgical treatment can be avoided by ruling out malignancy. We present the case of a low-grade, myofibroblastic lesion of the lip, which shows how detailed clinical examination rather than reliance on histopathological information alone helped to achieve this. Differential diagnoses of myofibroblastic lesions are also discussed.