neurothécome

Also known as Neurothecoma, Nerve Sheath Myxoma

A neurothekeoma is a type of rare benign cutaneous tumor that usually develops on the head and neck. They often occur in the second and early third decades of life and tend to afflict women more frequently than men. First described by Richard L Gallager and Elson B. Helwig, who proposed the term in order to reflect the presumed origin of the lesion from nerve sheath. Microscopically, the lesions described closely resembled the tumor, "nerve sheath myxoma (NSM)", an entity first described by Harkin and Reed. The latter had, through the years, been variously described as bizarre cutaneous neurof