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Myopericytoma, also glomangiopericytoma, is a rare perivascular soft tissue tumour.

General

  • Usu. benign.
  • Typically in the distal extremities.[1]

Microscopic

Features:

  • Abundant, branching thin-walled blood vessels.
  • Small bland epithelioid cells with moderate eosinophilic cytoplasm.
    • Unequally spaced cells (unlike glomus tumour).

Images:

References

  1. Zidane A, Arsalane A, Harkat A, et al. (November 2010). "[Myopericytoma: an uncommon chest wall tumor]" (in French). Rev Mal Respir 27 (9): 1089–91. doi:10.1016/j.rmr.2010.09.017. PMID 21111282.