• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.67-70
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• 2010

Purpose: Nerve sheath myxoma is a rare cutaneous neoplasm originating from the peripheral nerve sheath and divided into three groups : myxoid, cellular and mixed type. There is a controversy on it's origin whether schwannian cell or perineurial differentiation, or anything else. Myxoid nerve sheath myxoma is asymptomatic, soft, papule or nodule in middle-age adults. We report a case of myxoid nerve sheath myxoma on the fingertip. Methods: A 53-year-old woman presented with a painful, $0.4{\times}0.4{\times}0.6\;cm $sized, corn shaped nodule on the left 3rd fingertip. We put into surgical excision and studied it by histopathologically and specific immnohistochemical stain. Results: The tumor has well defined nodules separated by thin fibrous connective tissue with abundant myxoid stroma and were positively stainded for S-100 protein, NSE and GFAP. After surgical treatment it was healed without recurrence. Conclusion: Nerve sheath myxoma is rare neoplasm and located mainly on face, but very rarely on the fingertip. We report a case of painful myxoid nerve sheath myxoma located on the 3rd fingertip.

• Korean Journal of Head & Neck Oncology
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.63-65
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• 2015

Nerve sheath myxoma is a benign tumor of the peripheral nerves that rarely occurs in the lip area. Among the few reported cases, no lesion has previously been reported on the lip in Korea. We report a case of nerve sheath myxoma occurring on the lip of a 34 year-old woman with a brief review of the literature.