Soft tissue angiofibroma with atypical features

Atypical Presentation of Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Angiofibroma of soft tissue: clinicopathologic study of 2 cases of a recently characterized benign soft tissue tumor.

Angiofibroma of soft tissue is a very recently characterized, histologically distinctive benign mesenchymal neoplasm of unknown cellular origin composed of 2 principal components, the spindle cell component and very prominent stromal vasculatures. It usually occurs in middle-aged adults, with a female predominance. Herein, we describe the clinical and pathologic details of 2 other examples of t...

Subcutaneous Soft Tissue Sarcoma with Rhabdoid Features in a Dog

A nine-year-old male beagle dog had a white spherical mass in the subcutis of the left lumbar region. Microscopically, spindle to oval cells diffusely proliferated in the fibrous and myxoid stroma. Many neoplastic cells showed rhabdoid features or vacuolated cytoplasm. Immunohistochemically, the neoplastic cells were positive for vimentin and S100 and partly positive for neuron-specific enolase...

Angiofibroma of Soft Tissue on the Cheek: Diagnosis Confirmed by Gene Rearrangement in NCOA2.

Jin-Wook JEONG1, Michihiro KONO1*, Yoshie HASEGAWA-MURAKAMI1, Toru MOTOI2, Kenji YOKOTA1, Takaaki MATSUMOTO1, Kaori KAIBUCHI-ANDO1, Yoichi KATO3, Toyohiro TADA4 and Masashi AKIYAMA1 1Department of Dermatology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, 466-8550, 2Department of Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center, Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, 3Division of...

Soft-tissue reconstruction for atypical microtia malformations and trauma.

OBJECTIVE To provide customized reconstructions of atypical microtia malformations and trauma via 1- or 2-stage procedures. DESIGN Case reports. SETTING Academic otolaryngology specialty hospital. PATIENTS Pediatric patients with rare and unique ear malformations. INTERVENTIONS Customized auricular reconstruction using contralateral postauricular donor grafts (skin and cartilage) as wel...