Plexiform fibromyxoma is a rare and distinctive benign mesenchymal neoplasm that occurs in the gastric antrum. This tumor has a potential for misdiagnosis as gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). It causes mucosa and vascular ulcerations without advancement of the tumor. Cytological bland spindle cells within a variably myxoid stroma characterize the histology of the tumor. We report the case ...

Myxoid DFSP expresses apolipoprotein D and presents with a storiform pattern and characteristic subcutaneous infiltration. Diagnosis is confirmed by detection of the chromosomal translocation t(17;22). The differential diagnosis should include benign myxoid lesions with spindle-shaped cells (myxoid neurofibroma, superficial angiomyxoma, mucous cyst), malignant myxoid lesions with spindle-shaped...

ovaries we found that new growths of connective tissue had been developed in their stroma, containing in some places myxomatous tissue. Since ovarian connective-tissue tumours seldom occur, and much difference of opinion exists as to their origin, as is shown by the work of Leopold,1 so we took much interest in this case, as the swelling has not yet been described which here presented itself. A...

An Bras Dermatol. 2017;92(4):584-95. lobulated, of benign behavior, but which can persist or recur if it is excised in an inadequate manner, being recommended the complete excision of the lesion and postoperative follow-up.2,3 Nail bed is involved in 50% of the cases, and can rarely have a history of trauma preceding the onset of the lesion. Less frequent locations have already been described a...