Spinal form of neurofibromatosis is a varient of neurofibromatosis. It also is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by NF1 mutations. By contrast the clinical picture is dominated by spinal neurofibromas.
Café au lait spots | |
Typically neurofibromatosis is associated with cafe-au-lait spots. This however is not always true with the spinal form. |
Neurofibromatosis | ||||
Familial spinal neurofibromatosis | ||||
NF1 | ||||
Legius syndrome | ||||
Neurofibromatosis 1 | ||||
Neurofibromatosis-Noonan syndrome | ||||
Noonan syndrome 6 | ||||
Watson syndrome | ||||
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Poyhonen M et al. (1997) Hereditary spinal neurofibromatosis: a rare form of NF1? |
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Ars E et al. (1998) A clinical variant of neurofibromatosis type 1: familial spinal neurofibromatosis with a frameshift mutation in the NF1 gene. |
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Kaufmann D et al. (2001) Spinal neurofibromatosis without café-au-lait macules in two families with null mutations of the NF1 gene. |
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Messiaen L et al. (2003) Independent NF1 mutations in two large families with spinal neurofibromatosis. |
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OMIM.ORG article Omim 162210 |