Proliferative Fasciitis in Childhood: A Review of Clinical Data Apropos of a Case
Published: February 1, 2017 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2017/24274.9444
Dimitrios Sfoungaris, Vassilios Mouravas, Chrysostomos Kepertis, Vass ilios Lambropoulos, Ioannis Spyridakis
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2. Staff Surgeon, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
3. Staff Surgeon, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
4. Staff Surgeon, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
5. Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Correspondence
Dr. Dimitrios Sfoungaris,
G. Gennimatas Hospital 41, Ethnikis Amynis-54635, Thessaloniki, Greece.
E-mail: surgicalpediatrics@gmail.com
Proliferative Fasciitis (PF) is a benign lesion with histologic and clinical features overlapping with those of malignant soft tissue tumours. Its occurrence in children is considered very rare. We present a case of PF appearing as a painful, red, gradually increasing in size lesion, during a period of a few weeks, on the finger of a five-year-old boy compromising the dermis and subcutaneous tissue. We were able to locate literature on 20 paediatric PF cases, which we review. Only five of these focus on the clinical data, the rest describing mainly histological findings. It is the first reported paediatric case appearing on the finger.
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