Aggressive angiomyxoma of the liver: a case report.

Int J Clin Exp Med

Department of Pathology, Shihezi University School of Medicine and The Key Laboratories for Xinjiang Endemic and Ethnic Diseases, Chinese Ministry of Education Shihezi 832002, Xinjiang, China ; Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Shihezi University School of Medicine Shihezi 832002, Xinjiang, China.

Published: December 2015

Aggressive angiomyxoma (AAM) is a rare benign mesenchymal tumor that occurs almost exclusively in the soft tissues of the pelvis and perineum. Very few cases of AAM occurring outside these regions have been reported. The present report presents a case of AAM originating from the liver of a 50-year-old female patient. Tumor resection was performed, and pathological examination revealed microscopic features that were characteristic of AAM. Histopathological examination showed that the tumor was composed of scattered spindle-or stellate-shaped cells with thick-walled blood vessels lying in a myxoid stroma. Immunohistochemically, the tumor cells stained positively for CD34, vimentin, and actin. In this paper, we also discuss the differential diagnosis of AAM. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to report a case of AAM originating from the liver.

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