Abstract

We report a 46-year-old man fulfilling the diagnostic criteria of Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) who was admitted for surgical resection of a large neurofibroma at the upper back. At ages 20 and 36 years, a neurofibroma was partially removed from the same region but the lesion grew again continuously and became pruritic and painful. The tumor measured 258 × 43 × 159 mm by MRI. Macroscopically, the overlying skin was raised, hairy and hyperpigmented (figure 1). The tumor showed a pale-grey [...]

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