title: Neurovascular Stains in Two Girls with Neurofibromatosis 1.
abstract: We report two girls, ages 9 and 17 years, with a clinical diagnosis of neurofibromatosis 1 (NF-1) who presented with ill-defined, blanchable, erythematous patches on the dorsal feet and ankles. We hypothesized that these patches were a rare cutaneous finding in NF-1 that exist on a clinical and histopathologic spectrum with previously described NF-1 vascular lesions including blue-red macules and skin ulceration due to NF-1 vasculopathy. We suggest that these lesions be called neurovascular stains (NVSs) to unify their clinical and histopathologic features.
authors: Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors: Cary S
authors: CS
authors: Crall
authors: Division of Dermatology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
authors: Jillian
authors: J
authors: Rork
authors: Department of Dermatology, Masonic Children's Hospital, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
authors: Sheliagh
authors: S
authors: Maguiness
authors: Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors: Birgitta
authors: B
authors: Schmidt
authors: Dermatology Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors: Stephen
authors: S
authors: Gellis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009456:Neurofibromatosis 1 / Q000473:pathology*