Open AccessVon Recklinghausen's Disease Complicated by a Brain Tumor Identified as Pinealoma
Author(s) -
Shigeharu Suzuki,
Takashi Moriyama,
Mikio Suzuki,
Takashi Iwabuchi
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
neurosurgery/neurosurgery online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1081-1281
pISSN - 0148-396X
DOI - 10.1227/00006123-198104000-00016
Subject(s) - pinealoma , medicine , neurofibromatosis , café au lait spot , pathology , radiology
We report a case of von Recklinghausen's disease complicated by a pineal region tumor suspected, from the findings of various examinations and clinical observations, to be pinealoma. The patient is an 18-year-old boy with general café au lait spots, whose father also suffers from von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis.