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01-12-2013 | Case Reports
Diagnosis and treatment of digitocutaneous dysplasia, a rare infantile digital fibromatosis: a case report
Authors:
Marisa Cabrera González, Laura M. Pérez López, Diego Gutiérrez de la Iglesia, Carlota Rovira Zurriaga, Loreto Martorell Sampol, Antonia González Enseñat
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Excerpt
Digitocutaneous dysplasia, also termed osseous terminal dysplasia with pigmentary defects, is a recently described pathology. In 1974, Bloem et al. [
5] discussed the association between digital fibromas and pigmentary lesions. In 1998, Horii et al. [
13] published a case report with similar characteristics associated with facial dysmorphia and metacarpal involvement. These authors were the first to describe a syndrome that embraced all these features. Recently, in 2010, Sun et al. [
28] published the etiology of this pathology, FLNA gene mutation, with X-linked dominant transmission. This gene codifies filamin A, a protein essential in cytoskeleton formation. …