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Morphology: Nodule,skin coloured
Diagnosis: Anetoderma
Site: Abdomen
Sex: M
Age: 4
Type: Clinical
Description: Soft outpouching of the skin
Submitted by: Ian McColl
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Differential Diagnosis
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History:
- This is not a nodule.It is soft.If you press it with your finger there is a defect in the underlying skin and your finger falls into it.The only thing similar to it is a very soft neurofibroma in the condition neurofibromatosis.
- Anetoderma can occur with or without any preceding inflammation.
- Other disorders with localised loss of elastic fibres in the skin include cutis laxa, mid dermal elastolysis, and granulomatous slack skin.
- A recent paper in JAAD noted a prothrombotic tendency in this condition.
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