2015
DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2014-102973
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Bilateral vestibular schwannomas in older patients: NF2 or chance?

Abstract: Patients presenting with BVS later in life should be appraised of the potential likelihood they may not have NF2 and the resultant further reduction in risks of transmission to offspring.

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“…We believe this is the first recording of life expectancy estimates for schwannomatosis. Although some individuals who developed bilateral VS over 60 years of age may have developed these by chance,23 this will not have affected estimates for the birth years 1974–1983. As such, the estimates presented here that now suggest a birth incidence above 1 in 30 000 and closer to the 1 in 25 000 estimated previously from VS diagnosis16 are likely to be true.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We believe this is the first recording of life expectancy estimates for schwannomatosis. Although some individuals who developed bilateral VS over 60 years of age may have developed these by chance,23 this will not have affected estimates for the birth years 1974–1983. As such, the estimates presented here that now suggest a birth incidence above 1 in 30 000 and closer to the 1 in 25 000 estimated previously from VS diagnosis16 are likely to be true.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some individuals may have a unilateral eighth-nerve schwannoma associated to ipsilateral meningiomas [i.e., unilateral NF2 involvement of the CNS] or multiple schwannomas localised to one part of the peripheral nervous system 35 - 50 (the latter going into the differential diagnosis with schwannomatosis: see below) 66 . As somatic mosaicism for the NF2 gene is the causative phenomenon they are also referred to as having mosaic NF2 44 .…”
Section: Alternate/related Forms Of Neurofibromatosismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some individuals may also have NF2-related tumours localised to one part of the nervous system: e.g., a unilateral vestibular schwannoma with ipsilateral meningiomas or multiple schwannomas in one part of the peripheral nervous system (mosaic NF2): these phenotypes are caused by true somatic mutations of the NF2 gene 35 - 50 .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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