Abstract

VAILLANT SUAREZ, Guillermo Manuel  and  PEREIRA GOMEZ, Gabriela. Von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis in the childhood. MEDISAN [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.5, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1029-3019.

The clinical case of a 7-year-old Algerian girl with 3 year-exophthalmos of the right eye is reported who went to the outpatient department of the Ophthalmology Hospital "Amistad Argelia-Cuba" from Wilaya de Djelfa in the Democratic and People's Republic of Algeria. On physical examination numerous coffee-and-milk spots spread throughout the body and lid exophytic tumor of the right side were found, and in the specialized ophthalmologic testing: Lisch nodules. Cranial computerized axial tomography revealed a right intraocular tumor process and right palpebral tumor infiltrating oculomotor muscles: inferior oblique and right external. It was concluded that the patient presented with von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis.

Keywords : girl; von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis; right lid exophytic tumor; Lish nodules; computerized axial tomography; intraocular tumor; palpebral tumor.

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