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DeRmpath & Clinic Granular cell tumor of the vulva Volume 25, issue 6, November-December 2015

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Dermatology Department, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France

A 41-year-old Caucasian woman consulted for a vulvar lesion that had been slowly growing for the past 2 years. Physical examination disclosed a hard, 3 cm-long dermal nodule on the upper part of the left labium majus (figure 1). The lesion was slightly itchy and clinically reminiscent of a cyst or a keloid. Microscopic examination of a biopsy showed an acanthotic epidermis. The dermis contained a dense, diffuse, non-encapsulated proliferation of large, ovoid or polygonal cells with a finely granular, [...]