Every Posterior Fossa Mass Is Not a Tumor—Rare Case Report of Isolated Intracranial Infantile Myofibromatosis

Kishor Taori; Mansi Jain; Lalit Garg; Ajinky Patil; Jawhar Rathod; Rohit Khisti; Amit Disawal; Ramesh Parate; Shyam Chhadi

doi:10.4236/oalib.1100670

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Every Posterior Fossa Mass Is Not a Tumor—Rare Case Report of Isolated Intracranial Infantile Myofibromatosis ()

Kishor Taori, Mansi Jain^*, Lalit Garg, Ajinky Patil, Jawhar Rathod, Rohit Khisti, Amit Disawal, Ramesh Parate, Shyam Chhadi

Department of Radiodiagnosis, Government Medical College, Nagpur, India.

DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1100670 PDF 1,308 Downloads 1,584 Views

Abstract

Infantile myofibromatosis is the most common fibrous disorder of infancy and early childhood. It can present in three forms—solitary lesion, multicentric with visceral involvement and multi-centeric without visceral involvement. Intracranial involvement is rare and when it occurs, it is generally extension of extracranial lesion into the intracranial compartment. Here we present a rare case of isolated posterior fossa involvement presenting clinically as congenital facial palsy.

Keywords

Infantile Myofibromatosis, Posterior Fossa, Congenital Facial Palsy

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Taori, K. , Jain, M. , Garg, L. , Patil, A. , Rathod, J. , Khisti, R. , Disawal, A. , Parate, R. and Chhadi, S. (2014) Every Posterior Fossa Mass Is Not a Tumor—Rare Case Report of Isolated Intracranial Infantile Myofibromatosis. Open Access Library Journal, 1, 1-5. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1100670.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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