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Giant Intrathoracic Meningocele and Breast Cancer in a Neurofibromatosis Type I Patient

  • Malla, Hridayesh Pratap (Department of Medicine, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Park, Bong Jin (Department of Medicine, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Koh, Jun Seok (Department of Neurosurgery, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong) ;
  • Jo, Dae Jean (Department of Neurosurgery, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong)
  • Received : 2014.12.31
  • Accepted : 2015.10.05
  • Published : 2016.11.01
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Abstract

Intrathoracic meningoceles are relatively rare entities found in patients with neurofibromatosis type I (NF1). Given that both the BRCA1 and NF-1 genes are located on the same long arm of chromosome 17, one would expect concurrence of neurofibromatosis and breast cancer. However, incidence of such co-disorders is very rare in the literature. Here, the authors report a case of a 50-year-old female patient with NF-1 and concurrent cancer of the left breast, who had a huge bilobulated intrathoracic meningocele with thoracic dystrophic scoliosis, treated surgically via a posterior-only approach for the meningocele and spinal deformity in the same setting.

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