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Neurofibromatosis type 1 diagnosed in a child based on multiple juvenile xanthogranulomas and juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia.
Pediatric dermatology - 1 Jan 2000
Jans Sune R R, Schomerus Eckhard, Bygum Anette
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An association between juvenile xanthogranuloma (JXG), neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), and juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) has been described in the literature but has only been documented in approximately 20 cases. We diagnosed a patient with NF1 at 25 months of age, before any cutaneous stigmata of this disease had appeared, because we decided to screen for the NF1 gene mutation because of his...
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