[Ocular symptoms in von Recklinghausen disease]

Pol Merkur Lekarski. 2017 Dec 22;43(258):287-290.
[Article in Polish]

Abstract

Von Recklinghausen disease is a genetic disease with autosomal dominant, belonging to the group phakomatoses. In the clinical picture of the disease are skin lesions, eye, bone, intracranial tumors and other cancers of the extracranial location. Due to the high variability of clinical symptoms often diagnosis is delayed in cases of mild expression. The prognosis depends on the location and extent of the change and only symptomatic treatment have a tendency to change regrowth.

Keywords: neurofibromatosis; ocular symptoms; von Recklinghausen disease.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Eye / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Neurofibromatosis 1 / diagnosis*
  • Neurofibromatosis 1 / pathology*