Case Report
Calcified Leiomyoma of the Distal Forearm in a Child: A Case Report and Review of Literature
Table 1
Details of the published cases of deep soft tissue leiomyoma of the extremities in children.
| Author and year | Case no | Age | Sex | Pain | Duration of symptoms | Site | Calcification | Size |
| Goldman (1964) | 1 | 5 yrs | Female | No | 5 months | Thigh | Yes | 7.5 cm | Bulmer (1967) | 2 | 7 yrs | Male | No | 3 weeks | Arm | No | 3 cm | Ledesma-Medina (1980) | 3 | 6 yrs | Male | Yes | n/a | Axilla | Yes | | | 4 | 3 yrs | Male | n/a | 6 weeks | Subscapular | Yes | | Ross (1983) | 5 | 11 yrs | Male | Yes | Few weeks | Calf | Yes | 7 cm | Lopez-Barea (1994) | 6 | 6 yrs | Male | Yes | 6 months | Calf | Yes | | Billings (2001) | 7 | 12 yrs | Male | n/a | n/a | Thigh | n/a | n/a | | 8 | 14 yrs | Female | n/a | n/a | Forearm | n/a | <1 cm | | 9 | 6 yrs | Male | n/a | n/a | Thigh | n/a | 2 cm | Rasool (2013) | 10 | 3 yrs | Male | Yes | 6 months | Calf | Yes | | Ramachandran (2014) | 11 | 16 yrs | Male | Yes | 2 months | Forearm | No | n/a | Present case | 12 | 7 yrs | Male | Yes | 4 yrs | Distal forearm | Yes | |
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