Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia (Jul 2020)

Cellular Angiofibroma: A Rare Vulvar Tumor Case Report Angiofibroma celular: Um caso raro de tumor vulvar

  • Ana Helena Barbosa Fachada,
  • Cátia Sofia Guilherme Ferreira Pais,
  • Marta Andrea Ferreira Fernandes,
  • Nuno Jorge Lopes Dias,
  • António Manuel Leitão Loureiro Pipa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1712485
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 42, no. 6
pp. 365 – 368

Abstract

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Abstract Cellular angiofibroma (CA)is a rare benign mesenchymal tumor. In women, it occurs mainly in the vulvovaginal region, with vulvar location in 70% of the cases. Its clinical presentation is nonspecific and similar to several other vulvar tumors of different cellular origins. Thus, its histological and immunohistochemical features allow distinction fromother tumors. Cellular angiofibromas have good prognosis, despite some risk of relapse. The authors present the case of a 49-year-old woman with a bulky right vulvar lesion, for which the preoperative diagnosis was a Bartholin cyst, but the histological and immunohistochemical evaluation yielded a CA.

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