AGGRESSIVE ANGIOMYXOMA IN MEN - A REPORT OF 2 CASES ASSOCIATED WITH INGUINAL-HERNIAS

Aggressive angiomyxoma is a rare, locally invasive, but nonmetastasizi ng soft-tissue tumor that most commonly occurs in the pelvis or perine um of premenopausal women. In this article, we report two cases of agg ressive angiomyxoma that occurred in middle-aged men. Although both pa tients initially presented with inguinal hernias, in other respects th e two cases were significantly different. In one case, the tumor was s mall and found only incidentally at the time of surgery. In the other case, the tumor was extremely large, primarily involved the scrotal so ft tissue, and was clinically thought to represent a testicular tumor.