Recklinghausen's Neurofibromatosis Associated with Intrathoracic Meningocele

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WE have recently encountered at operation an intrathoracic meningocele in a patient with Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis upon whom we had operated fully expecting to find a paravertebral neurofibroma. A search of the literature on the subject of anterior intrathoracic meningocele revealed an interesting association between this lesion and Recklinghausen's disease, which we believe deserves comment since this association is not generally known.Because of its rarity anterior intrathoracic meningocele is almost never considered in the differential diagnosis of intrathoracic tumor. Groedel1 mentions the lesion in this connection in his textbook on roentgenographic diagnosis, but otherwise we have found no similar reference. . . .

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