Unger PD, Taff ML, Song S, Schwartz IS. Sudden death in a patient with Von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis.
Am J Forensic Med Pathol 1984;
5:175-9. [PMID:
6328972 DOI:
10.1097/00000433-198406000-00014]
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Abstract
Sudden death caused by tumors is uncommon. Death attributable to an unsuspected primary intracranial neoplasm is especially rare. An undiagnosed brain tumor is particularly unusual in a patient with Von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis (NF). A young man with known NF, with no manifest central nervous system involvement, died less than 24 hours after plastic surgery. A glioblastoma multiforme was discovered at autopsy.
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