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Fine needle aspiration cytology of focal myositis: a case report.

[focal myositis]

Focal myositis is an unusual inflammatwy lesion of the skeletal muscle first described by Heffizer. It is a benign condition and usually involves the muscles of the limbs.A man presented with a palpable mass in the left leg of 6 months' duration. Nuclear magnetic resonance of the leg showed a mass in the tibial muscle; the presumptive diagnosis was sarcoma of the muscle. Smears showed inflammatory cells, skeletal muscle fibers with degenerative and regenerative changes, and fibrous tissue, suggesting a diagnosis of focal myositis. An incisional muscle biopsy was performed, confirming the diagnosis.Focal myositis should always he considered when aspirating muscle masses because it is a clinical mimic of a neoplasm. The prognosis is good, and all cases reported in the literature were self-limiting and gradually resolved.

Diseases presenting "neoplasm" symptom

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  • alexander disease
  • aromatase deficiency
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • cholangiocarcinoma
  • cowden syndrome
  • cushing syndrome
  • cutaneous mastocytosis
  • dedifferentiated liposarcoma
  • dentin dysplasia
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • esophageal adenocarcinoma
  • esophageal carcinoma
  • familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
  • focal myositis
  • hodgkin lymphoma, classical
  • hydrocephalus with stenosis of the aqueduct of sylvius
  • junctional epidermolysis bullosa
  • kabuki syndrome
  • liposarcoma
  • lymphangioleiomyomatosis
  • pleomorphic liposarcoma
  • primary effusion lymphoma
  • proteus syndrome
  • pyomyositis
  • von hippel-lindau disease
  • waldenström macroglobulinemia
  • well-differentiated liposarcoma
  • werner syndrome
  • wolf-hirschhorn syndrome

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