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Morozov, A., Downey, R.J., Healey, J., Moreira, A.L., Franceschino, A., Dogan, Y., Leung, R., Edgar, M., LaQuaglia, M., Maki, R.G. and Moore, M.A.S. (2010) Benign Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Human Sarcomas. Clinical Cancer Research, 16, 5630-5640.
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• TITLE: Nontraumatic Myositis Ossificans in a Muscle of Mastication

  AUTHORS: Tadahiko Utsunomiya, Masaaki Suemitsu, Miyuki Morikawa, Masanobu Matsuno, Hirotsugu Yamamoto, Hitomi Sakata, Kazuhiro Hasegawa, Masahiro Higuchi, Kayo Kuyama

  KEYWORDS: Myositis Ossificans, Muscle of Mastication, Heterotopic Ossification, Histopathology

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Stomatology, Vol.6 No.5, May 11, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Myositis ossificans (MO) is an extraskeletal tumor-like lesion with bone formation, and is relatively rare in the head and neck region. We report herein a clinicopathological analysis of MO associated with a muscle of mastication. The patient was a 70-year-old Japanese woman who presented with a tumorous mass in the right parotid area and no history of trauma. The surgically excised tumorous lesion consisted of proliferating fibroblastic cells with no atypia in the central portion, and a formation of trabecular osteoid and/or bony tissue in the peripheral portion as the so-called “zonal phenomenon”. The final histological diagnosis was MO, and the lesion was located in the posterior belly of the digastric muscle on computer tomography. A review of the literature showed that many cases of MO predominantly affected the medial pterygoid and masseter muscle and showed a history of previous trauma. The present case represents a rare case of nontraumatic MO in the uncommon location of the posterior belly of the digastric muscle.