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| Year : 2005 | Volume
: 42
| Issue : 3 | Page : 161-164 |
Rare thoracic mass lesion - Myofibrobastoma
Vaibhav Sahni, Sikdar Sunandan, Satish K Agarwal, Narinder P Singh, Anirban Ganguli
Department of Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated Lok Nayak Hospital, G. B. Pant Hospital and Guru Nanak Eye Hospital, New Delhi-110002, India
Correspondence Address:
Vaibhav Sahni
Department of Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated Lok Nayak Hospital, G. B. Pant Hospital and Guru Nanak Eye Hospital, New Delhi-110002
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0019-509X.17063
Mesenchymal soft tissue masses are uncommon tumours of the chest. Myofibroblastoma is a recently described entity consisting of cells with origin from the myoepethelial cell, mostly seen as benign well-circumscribed neoplasms of the breast tissue. Though usually classified as a benign lesion, rarely it can be multifocal and prone to recurrence. We describe below the case of a 26-year-old female who presented with exertional dyspnoea and evidence of a massive mass lesion in the left hemithorax causing mediastinal displacement to the opposite side. On histological and immunophenotypic analysis, a diagnosis of the very rare thoracic myofibroblastoma was made. The incidence, salient features, pathological differential diagnoses and treatment are reviewed.
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