Fibrous hamartoma of infancy. Eight additional cases and a review of the literature
Paller, A.S.; Gonzalez-Crussi, F.; Sherman, J.O.
Archives of Dermatology 125(1): 88-91
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-987X PMID: 2642685 Document Number: 328646
Fibrous hamartoma of infancy is a benign but persistent soft-tissue tumor that appears during the first two years of life. Although the lesion is not distinctive clinically, histopathologic examination of affected tissue reveals the three characteristic elements: fibrous, adipose, and myxoid mesenchymal tissue. Sixty-seven patients with fibrous hamartoma of infancy have been described previously, few in the dermatologic literature. In this report, we describe eight additional patients and present a compilation of the clinical statistics of all 75 cases.