Transforming the Beast to A Beauty- Fifteen Years into the Making - Case Report of Congenital Neurofibromatosis

摘要

BACKGROUND:In 1882, the German pathologist Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen described a series of patients with a combination of cutaneous lesions and tumours of the peripheral and central nervous system. Succeeding this paper, all of the patients with similar symptoms were given the diagnosis “von Recklinghausen disease”. In the 20th century, a distinction was made between Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) with the help of molecular testing.