title: Intramuscular myxoma with fibrous dysplasia: a report of two cases with a review of the literature.
abstract: Two cases are reported of a rare association of intramuscular myxoma with fibrous dysplasia in a 70 and 40 year old Japanese woman, respectively. One of them had a solitary intramuscular myxoma, and the other patient suffered from two intramuscular tumors that had been initially misdiagnosed as myxoid liposarcoma. Only 24 cases of this kind of association have been recorded in the literature. This association should be taken into consideration to avoid inappropriate treatment, when cases of myxoid soft tissue tumor with a bone lesion are encountered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aoki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kouho
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hisaoka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakata
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sakai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005357:Fibrous Dysplasia of Bone / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D013848:Thigh; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed