Supernumerary Digit - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

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Greg Hosler, MD, PhD

Diagnosis

supernumerary digit

Body Site

hand

Age

4 months

Pigmentation

medium

Organization

discrete

Color

skin color

Morphology

papule

Pattern

solitary

Comments

This 4-month-old girl presented with bilateral appendages laterl to the fifth digits of her hands. The histology is typical in this case, and could mimic a traumatic neuroma without the good history for an accessory digit. A skin tag is in the differential diagnosis but should not contain the nerve bundles.

Description

There is a polypoid lesion with a stalk on acral skin. There are eccrine structures but no follicles. The stroma is loose with a haphazard arrray of small-caliber nerve bundles.

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12/14/2009 16:19:39

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