Von Recklinghausen's disease
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- Navarro Amaral Carvalho Hospital, Jau, So Paulo, Brazil Correspondence Neurofibromatosis or Von Recklinghausen's disease is a rare disease that affects the urogenital system in its visceral form.
- It has been reported that the incidence rate of spinal tumors in von Recklinghausen's disease is approximately 4%.
- A case of multiple intracerebral schwannomas associated with von Recklinghausen's disease is reported in a 23-year-old male.
- Von Recklinghausen's disease is often associated with multiple meningiomas, Schwannomas, and glial tumors within the cranial cavity.
- Von Recklinghausen's disease is an autosomal dominant disease in which spots of increased pigmentation are combined with multiple neurofibromas.
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