ULTRASTRUCTURAL EVIDENCE OF MYOFIBROBLASTS IN CIRCUMSCRIBED FIBROMATOSIS

  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 100  (5) , 265-268
Abstract
The myofibroblast, which exhibits ultrastructural features of smooth muscle cells and fibroblasts, is the predominant cell type in the granulation tissue of healing wounds. Similar cells were identified in an ultrastructural study of a human case of circumscribed fibromatosis. Myofibroblasts were described in several apparently unrelated conditions, suggesting that the acquisition of smooth muscle-like features is 1 of a limited number of ways in which fibroblasts may react to abnormal stimuli.

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