This short essay is about neurofibromatosis which is a genetic disorder of the nervous system.
Title: This short essay is about neurofibromatosis which is a genetic disorder of the nervous system.
Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
Details: Words: 1418 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
This short essay is about neurofibromatosis which is a genetic disorder of the nervous system.
Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
Details: Words: 1418 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
The neurofibromatosis (NF) are genetic disorders of the nervous system. At this time two
distinct forms are known: NF1 and NF2. One baby in every four thousand is born in the
United States with NF1. It is one of the most common genetic disorders, affecting some
one hundred thousand americans. NF2 is less common and occurs in only one and every
forty thousand births. In both forms of NF severity of symptoms vary greatly.
The
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following symptom's:
six or more café au lait macules over 5 mm in greatest diameter in prepubertal
individuals and over 15 mm in greatest diameter in postpubertal individuals,
two or more neurofibromas of any type or one plexiform neurofibroma,
freckling in the axillary or inguinal regions, optic glioma ,
two or more Lisch nodules (iris harmartomas) ,and a distinctive osseous lesion such as
sphenoid dysplasia or thinning of long bone cortex with or without pseudoarthrosis .