Pretracheal cervical granular cell myoblastoma.
This case report deals with a solitary granular cell myoblastoma extrinsic to the proximal trachea. This lesion can be encountered frequently by the plastic surgeon; its histology, incidence and treatment are reviewed here. It is important to reemphasize that local extirpation is appropriate treatment of what is almost always a benign neoplasm, and intraoperative pathological diagnosis guides the surgeon in providing curative therapy.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009379:Neoplasms, Muscle Tissue / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011379:Prognosis; D014132:Trachea / Q000601:surgery*