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Vestibular schwannomas occur in schwannomatosis and should not be considered an exclusion criterion for clinical diagnosis.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Jan 2012
Smith Miriam J, Kulkarni Anjana, Rustad Cecilie, Bowers Naomi L, Wallace Andrew J, Holder Susan E, Heiberg Arvid, Ramsden Richard T, Evans D Gareth
Abstract excerpt
Schwannomatosis is a recently delineated inherited condition that has clinical overlap with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2). Diagnostic criteria have been developed to distinguish schwannomatosis from NF2, but the existence of mosaic NF2, which may closely mimic schwannomatosis, makes even these criteria problematic. In particular, it is not clear why there is a relative sparing of the cranial nerves from...
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