1. Infantile myofibromatosis: a rare cause of subcutaneous nodules in an infant
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Marina Macchiaiolo, Gerarda Mastrogiorgio, Andrea Bartuli, Antonio Novelli, Paola Sabrina Buonuomo, P. Marchetti, Michaela Veronika Gonfiantini, Martina Rinelli, Ippolita Rana, and Francesco De Peppo
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Pregnancy ,Patient care team ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Day of life ,Infantile myofibromatosis ,medicine.disease ,Trunk ,Palpation ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Subcutaneous nodule ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,medicine ,Forehead ,Radiology ,business - Abstract
We present a 9-month-old boy, second child of non-consanguineous healthy parents, born after a full-term pregnancy. At 10th day of life, multiple subcutaneous nodules appeared, which progressively increased in size and number. The biggest one was evident in the forehead (figure 1); multiple subcentimetric nodules were detectable only on palpation on the trunk. Lesions were unpainful, mobile or fixed. Figure 1 Frontoparietal fixed subcutaneous nodule. Whole-body MRI showed multiple areas with stromal …
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- 2020
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