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Case Reports
. 2022 Nov;22(4):589-590.
doi: 10.18295/squmj.2.2022.014. Epub 2022 Nov 7.

Don't Miss the Target: A case of neurofibromatosis type 1

Ola Hamdani  1 , Buthaina Al-Yahyai  1 , Edwin Stephen  2 , Ibrahim Abdelhady  2 , Hanan Al-Mawaali  2 , Rashid Al-Sukaiti  3 , Khalifa Al-Wahaibi  2
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Don't Miss the Target: A case of neurofibromatosis type 1

Ola Hamdani et al. Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J. 2022 Nov.
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Figure 1
Photograph of the chest of a 27-year-old male patient showing café-au-lait macules and multiple swellings in the arms.
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Figure 2
Magnetic resonance imaging of the left arm of a 27-year-old male patient showing (A) the localised lesion laterally (arrowhead) with plexiform lesion medially (arrow) and (B) an axial view showing the target sign (arrow). The target sign refers to a central area with low signal intensity, surrounded by a high signal intensity and is sometimes referred to as a bull’s eye sign.
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