Schwannomatosis Involving Peripheral Nerves: A Case Report
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Schwannomatosis Involving Peripheral Nerves: A Case Report
Schwannomatosis or neurilemmomatosis has been used to describe patients with multiple nonvestibular schwannomas with no other stigmata of neurofibromatosis type-2 (NF-2). In our case, schwannomatosis, multiple schwannomas were present in a 21-yr-old woman with no stigmata or family history of NF-1 or NF-2. She had no evidence of vestibular schwannoma or other intracranial tumors. Multiple perip...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Korean Medical Science
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1011-8934
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2006.21.6.1136