Neurofibroma of Stomach in Von Recklinghausen's Disease

Abstract

July 18.-Bronchoscopy (I. L.) showed the orifice of the R. bronchus to be filled by a soft, yellowish white growth, a little firmer than brain tissue. Only a small chink remained open. The attachment of the growth extended right up to the carina. It was not lobulated. Large pieces of it were removed by forceps, securing good entry into the bronchus; a fair amount of bleeding. X-ray next day already showed re-aeration of about half the R. lung. August 7 to 29: Course of radiotherapy, Total 6,353 r. August 10: Re-bronchoscoped. There was now a smooth prominence, rather like an inflamed turbinate viewed from the posterior nares. September 3: X-ray showed normal position of heart with practically complete aeration of the R. lung. October 10: Bronchoscopy; only a small residual growth, 1 cm. long x 2 mm.

Gastric lesions in generalized neurofibromatosis

“…It is often asymptomatic (Grill and Kuzma, 1942;Lukash et al, 1966), but may present as gastro-intestinal haemorrhage (Lawson and Involvement of the stomach is rare. Perea and Gregory (1962) reported a case of generalized neurofibromatosis with a gastric neurofibroma, and collected 5 individual case reports from the literature (Shouldice, 1925;Mimpriss, 1945;Canney, 1948;Browne et al, 1949;McRobertson, 1956). Three further cases have been reported since in the English literature(0mo-Dare and Konstam, 1964; Lipton and Zuckerbrod, 1966;Lawson and Latimer, 1971).…”