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case_images: A 12-year-old boy with circumscribed alopecic patch on the scalp
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case_images: Physical examination revealed a soft 4 x 4 cm skin colored mass with mild tenderness on the occipital scalp [Figure 1].
case_images: Close-up view of the lesion on shaving the scalp. There were no bony depressions; however, the mass had a bag of worms feel on palpation
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case_images: Neither were there any changes in the bone around the margins of the swollen mass [Figure 2] nor was there any bruit over the mass.
case_images: Histopathology picture (10x) showing proliferation of spindle cells in the dermis with an unremarkable epidermis
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case_images: Histologic examination of the excised specimen [Figure 3] showed a typical presentation of diffuse neurofibroma involving the entire dermis and infiltrating the subcutaneous fat.
case_images: Histopathology picture (40x) showing the multiple spindleshaped cells with elongated ovoid to curved nuclei, surrounded by ecstatic blood vessels a matrix with wire like collagenous fibers
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case_images: Few ecstatic blood vessels were also found [Figure 4].