Definition: 'Juvenile Palmoplantar Fibromatosis'
juvenile palmoplantar fibromatosis
Type: Term
Definitions:
1. fibromatosis that occurs in children from birth to adolescence as a single poorly demarcated nodule of the thenar or hypothenar eminence or overlying the calcaneus of the mid-sole.
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