Cutaneous neurofibromas: Current clinical and pathologic issues

Nicolas Ortonne1, Pierre Wolkenstein2, Jaishri O Blakeley1

  • 1From the Departments of Pathology (N.O.) and Dermatology (P.W.), French Referral Center for Neurofibromatoses, Henri-Mondor Hospital, AP-HP, University Paris Est Créteil, France; Department of Neurology (J.O.B., S.K.V.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, The Neurofibromatosis Therapuetic Acceleration Program, Baltimore, MD; University of Alabama at Birmingham (B.K.); Cancer Center and Department of Neurology (S.R.P.) and Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology (A.S.-R.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; The Neurofibromatosis Institute (V.M.R.), La Crescenta, CA; Department of Pathology & Anatomical Sciences (D.C.M.), University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia; Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine (S.H.), Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, UK; Institute of Biomedicine (J.P.), University of Turku, Finland; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (A.R.), Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (S.L.C.), Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston; Clinics and Polyclinics of Neurology (V.M.), University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; and Division of Cancer and Genetics (M.U.), Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff University, UK.

Neurology
|July 11, 2018
PubMed
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