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Benign Nerve Sheath Myxoma in an Infant Misdiagnosed as Infantile Digital Fibromatosis
Author(s) -
Güngör Şule,
Şişman Servet,
Kocaturk Emek,
Oguz Topal Ilteris,
Yıldırım Selda
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
pediatric dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1525-1470
pISSN - 0736-8046
DOI - 10.1111/pde.12855
Subject(s) - medicine , nerve sheath , myxoma , differential diagnosis , fibromatosis , pathology , radiology , schwannoma
Herein we present the case of a 16‐month boy, clinically diagnosed with infantile digital fibromatosis, but 9 months after continued growth, the mass was excised and the histopathologic diagnosis was that of a benign nerve sheath myxoma. We present this case to emphasize that nerve sheath myxomas (also known as myxoid neurothekeoma) should be included in the differential diagnosis of dermal nodules in infants.