Visual Diagnosis: Connective Tissue Nevus and Osteopoikilosis

Pereira, María; Leite, Ana Flávia Schueler De Assumpção; Ferreira, Eugénia; Duarte, Ana Filipa; Haneke, Eckart; Correia, Osvaldo

doi:10.1542/pir.2016-0213

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“…In contrast to the 2 patients mentioned above and to elastofibromas in the Buschke-Ollendorf syndrome [7], the amount of elastic fibers was much higher in the present case. Individual fibers were considerably thinner, resembling oxytalan fibers [9, 10].…”

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“…Because of its variable amount of collagen fibers, the term elastofibroma may be more appropriate. Except for elastofibroma dorsi, which is thought to be reactive to chronic repeated trauma, most cases are multiple, and some are observed in association with peculiar round bone densities called osteopoikilosis, representing the autosomal dominant Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome [7]. Histopathology shows dense collagen tissue with an increased amount of elastic fibers that may be of normal thickness or coarser than normal and show fragmentation [8].…”

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Subungual Elastofibroma

Haneke

2020

Skin Appendage Disord

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Cutaneous elastofibroma is part of the connective tissue nevus complex. Two subungual cases remotely similar to the one presented here have been described before. This patient presented with an unusual form of subungual elastofibroma of the big toe, which was surgically removed. Histopathology revealed a connective tissue tumor extremely rich in very fine elastic fibers. Their relationship to oxytalan and elaunin fibers is discussed as is the potential association of this nail bed lesion with the onychodermis.

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