Intramuscular myxoma

Intramuscular Myxoma

Intramuscular Myxoma - A Rare Tumor

INTRODUCTION Intramuscular myxoma is a rare benign soft tissue tumor involving the musculoskeletal system. The incidence is reported as varying from 0.1 to 0.13 per 100,000 population. Most patients present between the fifth and sixth decade of life. The swelling commonly occurs in the large muscles of the thigh, shoulder, buttocks and arms. The tumor can be diagnosed with certainty only with h...

Intramuscular myxoma of the hypothenar muscles

Intramuscular myxomas of the hand are rare entities. Primarily found in the myocardium, these lesions also affect the bone and soft tissues in other parts of the body. This article describes a case of hypothenar muscles myxoma treated with local surgical excision after frozen section biopsy with tumor-free margins. Radiographic images of the axial and appendicular skeleton were negative for fib...

Intramuscular Myxoma of the Tibialis Anterior Muscle

Intramuscular myxoma is a rare entity in itself, and while it has been described in several locations in the body, its presence in the tibialis anterior muscle has only been reported once in the literature. In this case report, we present, to our knowledge, the first case of an intramuscular myxoma in the tibialis anterior muscle in the English literature, which was successfully managed with wi...

A rare intramuscular myxoma of the hypothenar

A 72 year old man was admitted to our department with a nine month history of gradually enlarging mass in the volar aspect of the hypothenar area of his left hand. The patient reported that the size of the mass had been increasing during the past 3 months. As far as the rest medical record is concerned he was under medication for diabetes mellitus type 2 with metformin and he had undergone an o...