Congenital multiple clustered dermatofibroma and multiple eruptive dermatofibro...

• Author(s): Pinto-Almeida, T. ; Caetano, M. ; Alves, R. ; Selores, M.
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.16/1643
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Centro Hospitalar do Porto
• Subject(s): Adult children; Congenital abnormalities; Histiocytoma; benign fibrous; Sjogren's Syndrome
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Dermatofibroma is one of the most common entities seen in dermatology clinical practice. Several clinical subtypes have nevertheless been described, all of them of uncommon occurrence. The authors present two rare clinical variants of dermatofibromas: congenital multiple clustered dermatofibroma (the presented case is the 4th congenital case to be reported so far) and multiple eruptive dermatofibromas developing in the setting of a Sjögren's syndrome. Since the uncommon subtypes may not be clinically evident, dermatologists should familiarize themselves with their main features and we advise a high level of clinical suspicion in order to reach the correct diagnosis.