Journal article
Nerve sheath myxoma (neurothekeoma) of the gingiva, a case report and review of the literature
Head & neck pathology (Totowa, N.J.), Vol.4(3), pp.242-245
09/2010
DOI: 10.1007/s12105-010-0183-5
PMCID: PMC2923317
PMID: 20502996
Abstract
Nerve sheath myxoma (NSM) is a benign peripheral nerve sheath tumor that rarely occurs in the oral cavity. Among the 23 reported intraoral cases, no lesion has previously been reported on the gingiva. In this report, we describe the first gingival case of oral neurothekeoma with histopathologic and immunohistochemical characteristics. The patient, a 32 year old female presented with a slowly growing gingival mass diagnosed clinically as an epulis. The lesion was surgically excised. Histopathologically, the lesion presented as a submucosal multinodular mass composed of spindle and stellate-shaped cells with a myxoid background. Immunohistochemically, the tumor cells were sporadically positive for S-100 and NSE and negative for GFAP, EMA, SMA, CD68 and HMB45. The immunoprofile of this lesion confirmed a Schwann cell origin. The lesion was followed up for 10 months with no reports of recurrence.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Nerve sheath myxoma (neurothekeoma) of the gingiva, a case report and review of the literature
- Creators
- Rima A Safadi - Department of Oral Surgery and Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan. rsafadi@just.edu.joJohn W HellsteinMay M DiabHuda M Hammad
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Head & neck pathology (Totowa, N.J.), Vol.4(3), pp.242-245
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12105-010-0183-5
- PMID
- 20502996
- PMCID
- PMC2923317
- ISSN
- 1936-055X
- eISSN
- 1936-0568
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2010
- Academic Unit
- Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984065709402771
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