title: Familial neurilemmomatosis: report of a case.
abstract: We report herein a case of familial neurilemmomatosis seen in a 16-year-old girl and her 38-year-old mother. The girl presented to us with an intrathoracic vagal neurilemmoma, as well as neurilemmomas on the right fifth intercostal nerve and in the serratus anterior muscle. Two years after these tumors were resected, bilateral acoustic neuromas and multiple brain stem tumors appeared. Her mother was being treated simultaneously at another hospital for multiple neurilemmomas, including bilateral acoustic neurilemmomas, suggesting the possibility that neurilemmomatosis is an autosomal dominantly inherited disorder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iwabuchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tanita
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koike
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujimura
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations / Q000235:genetics*; D025063:Chromosome Disorders; D003390:Cranial Nerve Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*