Clinical and image findings in a 43 year-old smoker man with advanced lung bullous emphysema and von Recklinhausen's neurofibromatosis are presented. Bullous emphysema and subpleural neurofibromas were detected in a chest computed tomographic study. The possible association or independence of these two conditions is discussed.
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