title: Infantile digital fibromatosis: our experience and long-term results.
abstract: Infantile fibromatosis is an uncommon benign proliferation of myofibroblasts in the dermal tissue on the digits and toes with a marked tendency for recurrence. Inclusion bodies in the cytoplasm of neoplastic fibroblasts are a characteristic histologic feature of this condition. The tumor may often resolve spontaneously. There is very little written in the literature on this subject, with only a few or isolated cases having been described. We report our experience of seven cases of recurrent infantile fibromatosis that underwent surgical treatment.
authors.affiliation: Centro Regionale di Chirurgia della Mano, Ospedale San Paolo, Via Genova, Savona, Italy. ombretta.s@libero.it
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Spingardi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zoccolan
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Venturino
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005385:Fingers / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006225:Hand / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome