title: Benign Nerve Sheath Myxoma in an Infant Misdiagnosed as Infantile Digital Fibromatosis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Okmeydanı Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Şule
authors.initials: Ş
authors.lastname: Güngör
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Okmeydanı Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Servet
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Şişman
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Okmeydanı Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Emek
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kocaturk
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Okmeydanı Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ilteris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Oguz Topal
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Acıbadem Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Selda
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yıldırım
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D018321:Neurothekeoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D014034:Toes / Q000473:pathology