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Multiple Pacinian neurofibroma and relationship with the finger‐tip arterio‐venous anastomoses
Author(s) -
LEVI L.,
CURRI S. B.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1980.tb08152.x
Subject(s) - anatomy , medicine , anastomosis , phalanx , neurofibromatosis , pathology , surgery
SUMMARY Multiple Pacinian neurofibromas involving the three phalanges of the ring finger of the left hand in a 60‐year‐old woman are described. The abnormal proliferation of Vater‐Pacini corpuscles in various stages of differentiation was associated with marked changes of the glomus type of arterio‐venous anastomoses of the finger‐tip. The close relationship between the new proliferated Vater‐Pacini corpuscles, their altered baresthetic function and the pathological shunting of blood account for the painful Raynaud‐like symptoms. The name ‘Pacinian neurofibromatosis’ is proposed.