NF-Related Articles, Abstracts, and Research Highlights

• E-Medicine: Dermatologic Manifestations of Neurologic Disease
  Theresa Conologue, DO, Staff Physician, Department of Dermatology, National Capital Consortium/Walter Reed Army Medical Center
  
  
• Medical Journal Abstracts (Pub Med)
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• NF-1
  
  Do hormonal contraceptives stimulate growth of neurofibromas? A survey on 59
  NF1 patients
  Marge Lammert, Victor-Felix Mautner, and Lan Kluwe
  
  Superficial Neurofibroma: A Lesion with Unique MRI Characteristics in
  Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 1
  Ruth Lim, Diego Jaramillo, Tina Young Poussaint, Yuchiao Chang and
  Bruce Korf
  
  NF: Brain tumor study reveals why treatment efforts fail in genetic disorder
  From Washington University School of Medicine
  
  Neurofibromatous neuropathy in neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1).
  Ferner RE, Hughes RA, Hall SM, Upadhyaya M, Johnson MR.
  
  Self-Concept of Children with NF1
  Belinda Barton and Kathryn North
  
  
• NF-2
  
  Conformal Radiation Therapy for Childhood CNS Tumors.
  David G. Kirsch, Nancy J. Tarbell.
  
  Genotype-Phenotype Correlations for Nervous System Tumors in Neurofibromatosis 2: A Population-Based Study
  Baser, ME et al.
  
  Optic Nerve Sheath Meningiomas in Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type 2
  Bosch, MM et al.
  
  Simultaneous cochlear implantation and translabyrinthine removal of vestibular schwannoma in only hearing ear. (Abstract)
  Aristegui M, Denia A.
  
  Stereotactic radiotherapy for vestibular schwannomas: favorable outcome with minimal toxicity. (Abstract)
  Chan AW, et al.
  
  Stereotactic radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas in patients with
  neurofibromatosis type 2: an analysis of tumor control, complications, and
  hearing preservation rates.
  Mathieu, D et al.