title: Infantile myofibroma eroding into the frontal bone: a case report and review of its histopathologic differential diagnosis.
abstract: Infantile myofibroma is a rare and benign tumour of children presenting in the head and neck region. Rendering a final diagnosis of infantile myofibroma can be challenging in the light of nonspecific clinical, radiological findings and its histopathological similarities with a number of neoplasms especially spindle cell tumours. In this paper we discuss a case of infantile myofibroma in a 2-month-old infant, enumerating the various differential entities that have to be eliminated in reaching its specific diagnosis and highlighting the importance of immunopositivity to vimentin and smooth muscle actin (SMA) in establishing its myofibroblastic differentiation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal 576104, India.
authors.forename: Aatish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thennavan
authors.forename: Venkadasalapathi
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Narayanaswamy
authors.forename: Thanvir Mohammed
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Niazi
authors.forename: Lakshmi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: Raghu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Radhakrishnan