Sporadic Unifocal Infantile Myofibromatosis Involving the Skull: Case Report

Department

neurosurgery

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Infantile myofibromatosis involving the skull is a benign disease if there is a solitary lesion. However, the multifocal form with skull involvement may portend a lethal course in the i st year of life if there is involvement of the heart, lungs, or gastrointestinal tract. The authors report the case of a 3-year-old boy with an enlarging left parietal skull lesion that had been present since infancy. Increasing pain and the need to obtain tissue for diagnosis led to resection of the lesion by means of a small craniectomy. Further evaluation revealed no other lesions. A distinctly rare disease is presented, and the need for staging in children younger than 2 years of age is suggested to role out cardiac, pulmonary, or gastrointestinal involvement.

Publication Date

1999

Publication Title

Journal of Neurosurgery

ISSN

0022-3085

Volume

90

Issue

6

First Page

1129

Last Page

1132

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.3171/jns.1999.90.6.1129

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