[Gastrointestinal autonomic tumor associated with von Recklinghausen's disease]

Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve (GAN) tumor is a rare type of gastrointestinal stromal tumor that is presumed to arise from the enteric autonomic plexus. Occasionally it develops associated with von Recklinghausen's disease (VRD). A 63-year-old-woman with VRD and two GANs in the ileum is reported, and the literature of this combined findings reviewed.