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myxoma
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myxoma [mik′sō·mə]
(medicine)
A benign tumor composed of mucinous connective tissue.


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The myxomatous mass was noted to involve the middle ear cavity, and it extended anterosuperiorly to the middle fossa dura.
We report a case of myxolipoma--that is, a lipoma with foci of myxomatous degeneration--of the epiglottis in a 56-year-old woman.
Histopathologic examination of the lesion identified a fairly well circumscribed myxomatous mass covered with a partially ulcerated mucosal epithelium (figure 3, A).
 
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