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A 17-year-old boy was admitted with severe neck pain and intermittent paresthesias of the arms and legs. Neurofibromatosis had been diagnosed at the age of 2 years. He had been operated upon on multiple occasions for excision of peripheral neuromata. Intellectual development was normal.
Reviewed by Dr. Thomas Kaye, Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York.
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Amar, D. (1988). The Patient with Neurofibromatosis. In: Frost, E.A.M. (eds) Preanesthetic Assessment 1. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4818-7_16
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