Findings of one or a few usually small lesions centered in the dermis of a digit consisting of spindle-shaped cells and expressing α-smooth muscle actin, desmin, and calponin proteins would support the diagnosis of IDF.Infantile myofibromatosis (IMF) is, like IDF, a disease in which benign tumors develop primarily in the fingers and toes of newborns and infants and consists of spindle-shaped cells in a collagen fibrous background. IDF was once regarded as a sub-type of infantile myofibromatosis. However, IMF tumors can be far more  aggressinve than IDF lesions and consist of cells that do not have paranuclear inclusions. The World Health Organization (2020) classification includes IPF but not IMF as a tumor in the category of benign fibroblastic and myofibroblastic tumors. Treatment
Infantile digital fibroma lesions were once thought to be potentially malignant and therefore treated with surgical excision and even digital amputations. Currently, these tumors are known to be benign, may spontaneously regress, and often recur after surgical removal. Consequently, IDF lesions are usually treated by a watchful waiting observation approach with surgical resections limited to cases with functional impairment, significant symptoms, or progressive, long-term growth. Alternate or supplemental treatments used to treat IDF include injection of the glucocorticoid, triamcinolone, or the chemotherapy drug, 5-fluorouracil, directly into the lesions. Since these injection treatments have not been evaluated in large studies to date, surgical resection is the most accepted treatment of highly symptomatic or progressively enlarging IDF lesions. Overall, the prognosis for IDF is excellent. See also
Infantile fibromatosis
Skin lesion

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First came the twelve Titans, next came the three one-eyed Cyclopes:

Then [Gaia] bore the Cyclopes, who have very violent hearts, Brontes (Thunder) and Steropes (Lightning) and strong-spirited Arges (Bright), those who gave thunder to Zeus and fashioned the thunderbolt. These were like the gods in other regards, but only one eye was set in the middle of their foreheads; and they were called Cyclopes (Circle-eyed) by name, since a single circle-shaped eye was set in their foreheads. Strength and force and contrivances were in their works. Following the Cyclopes, Gaia next gave birth to three more monstrous brothers, the Hecatoncheires, or Hundred-Handed Giants. Uranus hated his monstrous children, and as soon as each was born, he imprisoned them underground, somewhere deep inside Gaia. Eventually Uranus son, the Titan Cronus, castrated Uranus, becoming the new ruler of the cosmos, but he did not release his brothers, the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires, from their imprisonment in Tartarus.For this failing, Gaia foretold that Cronus would eventually be overthrown by one of his children, as he had overthrown his own father. To prevent this, as each of his children were born, Cronus swallowed them whole; as gods they were not killed, but imprisoned within his belly. His wife, Rhea, sought her mothers advice to avoid losing all of her children in this way, and Gaia advised her to give Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes. In this way, Zeus was spared the fate of his elder siblings, and was hidden away by his mother.