• | AKA recurrent infantile digital fibromatosis |
• | fibromas on fingers and toes; first year of life; involutes spontaneously |
• | clinical: asymptomatic, firm, red, smooth nodules, may look like a “clove of garlic” |
• | ddx: accessory digit; traumatic neuromas |
• | characteristic histology: inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of spindle cells (look like RBC’s but are probably actin) |
• | treatment: Andrew’s “surgical excision has a high risk of recurrence; it is preferable to procrastinate in the hope of spontaneous resolution” |
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