At Bioplasm machine-research of patients with
NF in 60.0% of cases tumors have been represented by single neoplasms which were
located hypodermically and intramuscularly, mainly on extensor surfaces of a
body and extremities, and were not connected to main nerve trunks. In 40.0% of
cases neurofibromas were located along main nerve trunks and plexuses. Some of
small size tumors were detected for by Bioplasm machine-research for the first
time.
Inasmuch the fact that in 9 patients
affection of one segment of a body was detected, it was possible to make a
preliminary diagnose: segmentary NF (NF5) at which any area of a body, as it is
known, is affected. However, as it has been specified earlier, all types of NF,
except NF2, are versions of NF1, but in our work we have not received signs of
NF1presence at patients. Therefore the given assumption (about presence of NF5),
most likely, would be incorrect. At combined type of NF, except peripheral
neurofibromas, the basic symptom is the presence of central nerve system tumors,
developing most frequently at the age of 20–30 years. In our work we have faced
only peripheral NF cases, which affected soft tissues of extremities. However at
alternative 4th or 5th type of NF numerous neurofibromas are accompanied by high
risk of optic nerve glioma, neurilemmoma or meningioma development. 4 patients
from studied group have been subjected to MRI of brain, at which no pathological
changes were revealed at the moment of inspection. Other patients were
recommended to undergo MRI of a head and, in case of any complaints and clinical
manifestations, MRI of a spine for acknowledgement or denial of a central form
of pathological process.
