Pediatric dermatofibromas: Truncal predominance in younger children. Pediatr Dermatol 2024 Feb 26
Date
02/27/2024Pubmed ID
38409816DOI
10.1111/pde.15568Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85186587315 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)Abstract
Pediatric dermatofibromas are considered rare in young children and have not been well characterized, often misdiagnosed clinically. We performed a retrospective case series of children younger than 18 years with histopathologically diagnosed dermatofibromas at our institutions and evaluated age at onset and diagnosis, sex, lesion location, and size, associated symptoms, change over time, and pre-biopsy diagnosis. Overall, dermatofibromas were most common on the back and chest (20/53; 38%), followed by the legs (15/53; 28%) and arms (12/53; 23%) with the most common pre-biopsy diagnosis of "cyst" (23/53; 43%), followed by dermatofibroma (16/53; 30%), and pilomatricoma (12/53; 23%). Our study reinforces previous findings of truncal predominance of pediatric dermatofibromas, different from adults.
