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Case Reports
. 2010 Apr;41(4):555-8.
doi: 10.1002/mus.21546.

A patient with neurofibromatosis type 1 and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1B

Eric Lancaster  1 , Lauren B Elman, Steven S Scherer
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Case Reports

A patient with neurofibromatosis type 1 and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1B

Eric Lancaster et al. Muscle Nerve. 2010 Apr.

Abstract

We describe a patient with both neurofibromatosis type 1 and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1B. Although one might expect an overwhelming tumor burden due to the combination of these two disorders, the two mutations did not appear to interact.

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