The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics 2003 , Vol 45 , Num 1
Infantile myofibromatosis in a newborn: a case report

Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine, Kırıkkale-Turkey

Department of Pathology, Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine, Kırıkkale-Turkey

Department of Pathology, State Hospital, Konya, Turkey

Abstract

Infantile myofibromatosis presents as a firm, nodular mass in soft tissues, muscles, or visceras which can be solitary or multicentric, and it may regress spontaneously. We present a one-day-old boy who was admitted to the hospital for two masses, with one below the umbilicus that looked like a hemangiomatous structure and the other in the abdominal skin as a subcutaneous nodule. There was no intraabdominal involvement, and both of the masses were resected at 10 days of life. The one-year follow-up was uneventful.

Keywords : infantile myofibromatosis abdominal wall newborn
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