Diffuse lung disease in neurofibromatosis.

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Thoracic Endoscopy and Pulmonology Unit, Maggiore Hospital, Largo Nigrisoli 2, 40133 Bologna, Italy.

Published: April 2012

Prevalence, characteristics and the very existence of neurofibromatosis-associated diffuse lung disease remain unclear, mostly because the few studies that looked at pulmonary involvement in such patients used chest X-ray as diagnostic mean. We report on the clinical, functional and HRCT findings in a patient with neurofibromatosis-associated diffuse lung disease and provide a short literature review.

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