According to Senn, Heusinger records the case of a sailor of
twenty-three in whom all the nerves were affected by numerous
nodular enlargements. Not a nerve in the entire body was found
normal. The enlargement was caused by increase in the connective
tissue, the axis-cylinders being normal. In this case there was
neither pain nor tenderness.
Prudden reports the case of a girl of twenty-five who, during
convalescence from variola, became paraplegic, and during this
time multiple neuromata appeared. At the postmortem more than a
thousand tumors were found affecting not only the peripheral
branches and the sympathetic, but also the cranial nerves and the
pneumogastric. Under the microscope these tumors showed an
increase in the interfascicular as well as perivascular fibers,
but the nerve-fibers were not increased in size or number.
Virchow collected 30 cases of multiple neurofibromata. In one
case he found 500, in another from 800 to 1000 tumors.
Plexiform neuroma is always congenital, and is found most
frequently in the temporal region, the neck, and the sides of the
face, but almost any part of the body may be affected. Christot
reports two cases in which the tumors were located upon the cheek
and the neck.
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