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Cutaneous ganglioneuroma within a giant congenital nevus
Marcos Ro Jaeger1, Sandra Viero, Ronald M Zuker
1Departments of Plastic Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario.
Abstract:
Cutaneous ganglioneuroma has only occasionally been reported in the literature. Cutaneous ganglioneuroma is seen even more rarely in association with a giant congenital nevus. Differential diagnosis includes malignancies, especially melanoma and metastatic neuroblastoma. It is essential to rule out malignancy in a solid lesion within a congenital nevus. The present report is possibly the first relating ganglioneuroma and a congenital nevus to a cervical mass detected during routine prenatal ultrasound.
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