Gingival hyperplasia associated with juvenile hyaline fibromatosis: a case report and review of the literature.

R Molluscum fibrosum,” a variant of the neurofibromaosis disorders, was first described by Murray in 873. However, in 1973 it was Kitano et al who enamed the disease “juvenile hyaline fibromatosis” JHF). There have been approximately 70 cases of JHF eported in the literature to date. JHF is a rare autosomal dominant systemic disease f the connective tissue, typically presenting in childood. In 2002, Rahman et al performed a genetic nalysis of 2 families with JHF and linked JHF to a utation on chromosome 4q21. The exact underlying athogenesis of JHF is yet to be identified, but some nvestigators have proposed it results from an abnor-