CUTANEOUS LEIOMYOMA: A CASE STUDY WITH REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON RARE VARIANTS AND CLINICAL BEHAVIOUR

Abstract

Cutaneous leiomyomas are unusual benign smooth muscle tumors that comprises of  three distinct types such as piloleimyoma, angioleiomyoma, and genital leiomyoma. However Cutaneous leiomyoma  tumor  arises from errector pili muscle sharing similar  histological features with uterine atypical or symplastic leiomyoma showing  atypical cellularity with pleomorphic nuclei with variable mitotic activity. Six other cases have been reported so far and, in spite of its name and of being a smooth muscle proliferation, no recurrences nor metastasis have been reported. The present study briefs a series of  5 interesting cases of  cutaneous  leiomyoma presented as subcutaneous  masses  with a brief note on its review of literature. The present study advocates the clinicians to include  cutaneous leiomyoma as a differential diagnosis on all patients presenting with subcutaneous masses