Myoepithelioma is a rare benign tumor of the salivary glands and is usually seen in the parotid gland and the minor salivary glands. It was once considered to be a type of pleomorphic adenoma (PA), but myoepitheliomas are today believed to be relatively aggressive tumors. Myoepitheliomas are most common in young adults between the ages of 30 and 50 and there are very few cases reported in indiv...

Myoepithelioma (ME) is a benign tumor, arising predominantly from major and minor salivary glands (SG). Clinically, it presents as painless mass with slow growth. In our case report, this lesion occurred in 51-year-old man, presented well-defined oval on the right parotid region. The magnetic resonance imaging study confirmed presence of features that was excised surgically by partial superfici...

Basal cell carcinoma is the most common skin cancer. Myoepithelial cells are specialized epithelial cells. Basal cell carcinoma with myoepithelial differentiation is a rare tumor. A 71-year-old man with a basal cell carcinoma with myoepithelial differentiation that presented as an asymptomatic red papule of two months duration on his forehead is described. Including the reported patient, this v...

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Myoepithelial tumor (MET) of soft tissue and bone is an unusual tumor of uncertain differentiation and histogenesis, but lately has been recognized as a distinct tumor entity. This tumor forms a morphologic continuum with a mixed tumor and a parachordoma, but is different from an extra-axial chordoma or chordoma periphericium. METs display a range of histopathologic features, including architec...