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Presentation of a Case

ROBERT H. TRUEMAN, M.D.; I. EDWARD RUBIN, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1953;50(4):468-474.

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TUMORS of the optic disk (nerve head, or papilla) associated with neurofibromatosis (von Recklinghausen's disease) are exceedingly rare, there being but two cases in the literature to date. The first was reported by Stallard¹ in 1938 and the second, in which tumors of both disks were found, by Goldsmith² in 1949. It is the purpose of this paper to report an additional case, that of a tumor of the right disk occurring in a patient with a number of other manifestations of neurofibromatosis.

PRESENTATION OF CASE

History.

—M.S., a white man aged 32, had a negative medical history until 1943, when, at the age of 23, he was examined by his Selective Service Board and rejected for military service because of nodules on the anterior chest wall. He was examined at Jefferson Medical College Hospital, where, in addition to the nodules, numerous café-au-lait spots on the skin of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PHILADELPHIA

From the Neuro-Ophthalomology Service, Philadelphia General Hospital.

Footnotes
Presented at the joint meeting of the Philadelphia Neurological Society and the New York Neurological Society, April 18, 1952.

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