Department of Surgery, Centro Hospitalar, Ortopedy, Viseu, Portugal
Case Report
Neurofibromatosis type 1, case report of surgical treatment of cervical c2 kissing neurofibromas
Author(s): Marcel Sincari*, Francisco Cabrita, Eduardo Mendes and Mark Sincari
Neurofibromatosis type 1 is an autosomal dominant genetic syndrome
associated with numerous neoplastic and non-neoplastic manifestations
affecting a variety of organ systems, including skin, eye, nervous system,
skeleton and endocrine and gastrointestinal tract. The diagnosis and
clinical course of this disease is associated with a variety of different
challenges. Postoperative management of surgically treated cases is
even more difficult. We present a case of a young lady with NF1 with
kissing NFBs of C2 root with severe cervical spine compression and
signs of myelopathy treated surgically. The postoperative period was
practically the follow up of complications and addressing them. The
final result is very good and the overall follow up was 5 years... View More»
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