Diagnostic delay of NF1 in hemifacial hypertrophy due to plexiform neurofibromas

Brain and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 275-280

  Overdiek, Anja ^a,b   Feifel, Hartmut ^a   Schaper, Jörg ^b   Mayatepek, Ertan ^a,b   Rosenbaum, Thorsten ^a,b  

^a Marien Hospital Aachen   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Facial hemihypertrophy; Neurofibromatosis; Plexiform neurofibroma

Indexed keywords

CAFE AU LAIT SPOT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FACE; FACE HEMIHYPERTROPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; LYMPHANGIOMA; MALE; MESENCHYMOMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT; PLEXIFORM NEUROFIBROMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT SURVEY;

CHEEK; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FACIAL HEMIATROPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROFIBROMA, PLEXIFORM; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33646504120     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2005.10.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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