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Definition: Benign tumor of the peripheral nerve sheath. (a) Solitary and (b) multiple in neurofibromatosis.
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Gambarotti, M. (2014). Neurofibromas. In: Picci, P., Manfrini, M., Fabbri, N., Gambarotti, M., Vanel, D. (eds) Atlas of Musculoskeletal Tumors and Tumorlike Lesions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01748-8_70
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