National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 23, 2024
Preferred Name

Proliferative Myositis
Synonyms

Proliferative Myositis

Definitions

A rapidly growing, poorly circumscribed, mass-forming proliferation that arises from the skeletal muscle. It is characterized by the presence of spindle-shaped fibroblasts, round ganglion-like cells, myxoid to collagenous stroma formation, and high mitotic activity. It recurs only rarely following local excision and does not metastasize.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C121154

code

C121154

DEFINITION

A rapidly growing, poorly circumscribed, mass-forming proliferation that arises from the skeletal muscle. It is characterized by the presence of spindle-shaped fibroblasts, round ganglion-like cells, myxoid to collagenous stroma formation, and high mitotic activity. It recurs only rarely following local excision and does not metastasize.

FULL_SYN

Proliferative Myositis

label

Proliferative Myositis

Neoplastic_Status

Benign

Preferred_Name

Proliferative Myositis

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C121154

Semantic_Type

Neoplastic Process

UMLS_CUI

C0544796

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C7147

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