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Abstract
Eighty-five patients with von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis were seen at the
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh from 1952 through 1976. Nineteen of these patients
had significant head or neck extracranial lesions. Based upon these and a personal
series of seven other head and neck patients, we emphasize several critical points
in the care of these patients: (1) large, painful, conspicuous, or strategically placed
tumors should be removed; (2) early removal is easier and improves cosmetic results;
(3) neck and chest tumors carry a high risk of subsequent rapid vertebral angulation
with possible paralysis; (4) close observation allows timely application of appropriate
surgical procedures.
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☆Presented at the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Central Surgical Association, Buffalo, N. Y., March 3–5 1977.
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© 1977 Published by Elsevier Inc.
