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Cancer and Central Nervous System Tumor Surveillance in Pediatric Neurofibromatosis 2 and Related Disorders.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 Jun 2017
Evans D Gareth R, Salvador Hector, Chang Vivian Y, Erez Ayelet, Voss Stephan D, Druker Harriet, Scott Hamish S, Tabori Uri
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The neurofibromatoses consist of at least three autosomal-dominant inherited disorders: neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), and schwannomatosis. For over 80 years, these conditions were inextricably tied together under generalized neurofibromatosis. In 1987, the localization of NF1 to chromosome 17q and NF2 (bilateral vestibular schwannoma) to 22q led to a consensus conference at...
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