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A 16-year-old boy was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis (NF) at the age of 14 because of rapidly progressive weakness and wasting of his right arm. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at the time showed multiple NF from C4-7.
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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2013). Case 54: Neurofibromatosis. A Warning. In: Near Misses in Pediatric Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7040-3_54
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