| | Neurofibromatosis Clinics Association - What is Neurofibromatosis (NF)? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08) |
 | | Neurofibromatosis (NF) is one of the most common genetic conditions and can affect anyone, regardless of family history, race, gender, or ethnic background. |
 | | In individuals with mosaic or localized manifestations of neurofibromatosis type 1 (segmental neurofibromatosis type 1), disease features are limited to the affected area, which varies from a narrow strip to one quadrant and occasionally to one half of the body. |
 | | Patients with localized neurofibromatosis type 2 have disease-related tumors localized to one part of the nervous system; for example a unilateral vestibular schwannoma with ipsilateral meningiomas or multiple schwannomas in one part of the peripheral nervous system. |
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