A Case of Traumatic Neuroma / 대한피부과학회지

ABSTRACT

Neuromas are hyperplasia of axons and associated nerve sheath cells. Cutaneous neuromas are uncommon. Three kinds of true neuromas exist in the skin and mucous membranes traumatic neuromas, solitary palisaded encapsulated neuromas, and multiple mucosal neuromas. Traumatic neuromas are usually solitary, skin-colored or pink, firm papules or nodules at the sites of scars following local trauma. A 2-year-old male patient presented a solitary rice grain sized, skin-colored painful and tender polypoid papule on the left 2nd finger. The lesion was superimposed on a small linear scar. The patient had taken a trauma by a broken piece of glass about one month before the development of the neuroma. We report a case of traumatic neuroma with a review of the literature.