Myxoid leiomyoma of the vulva mimicking aggressive angiomyxoma.

A case of vulvar leiomyoma with extensive myxoid change in a 40 year old female is described. The tumor had a unique connection with a non-degenerative leiomyoma that compressed the rectum and the bladder. Scattered smooth muscle cells in a loose myxoid stroma were immunoreactive for desmin. Fibroblast-like spindle cells were immunoreactive for vimentin but not for desmin. The initial, although incorrect, pathological diagnosis of the tumor was aggressive angiomyxoma based on the similarity in both clinical and pathological aspects with this more invasive tumor. Myxoid vulvar leiomyoma should also be differentiated from angiomyofibroblastoma. The key to the differential diagnosis is the presence of interlacing smooth muscle cells and an awareness of tendency toward myxoid change in vulvar leiomyomas.