Neurofibromatosis Wikibooks

Description: Definition Neurofibromatosis type I (NF-1), along with Neurofibromatosis type II (a.k.a. MISME syndrome), Tuberous Sclerosis, Sturge-Weber, and Von Hippel-Lindau compromise the phakomatosis or neurocutaneous syndromes, all of which have neurologic and dermatologic lesions. This grouping is an artifact of an earlier time in medicine, before the distinct genetic basis of each of these diseases was understood. Etiology Neurofibromatosis type I (NF-1), also known as von Recklinghausen disease, is the result of a defect on Chromosome 17. from Diagnostic Radiology/Musculoskeletal Imaging/Dysplasia Basic/Neurofibromatosis From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection