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We report a 9-year-old boy with repeated fractures of the tibia from age 6 months and microscopic hematuria from age 2 years. His maternal family has a history of nephritis and his paternal family has neurofibromatosis type-I (NF-I). The boy’s renal biopsy revealed an irregular attenuation and splitting of the glomerular basement membrane. The skin biopsy was stained with monoclonal antibody against the α5 chain of type IV collagen; the epidermal basement membrane was negative in the boy and segmentally positive in the boy’s mother. We conclude that the patient inherited Alport syndrome from his mother and NF-I from his father. We postulate this was a chance association and that this case does not suggest any relationship between the two diseases.
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Received August 21, 1996; received in revised form and accepted March 20, 1997
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Ding, J., Yang, JY., Yao, Y. et al. Alport syndrome with neurofibromatosis type-I: a case report. Pediatr Nephrol 11, 649–650 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004670050358
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