A case of an 8-year-old boy who was strongly suspected of suffering from familial angiolipomatosis

• Main Authors: Yutaka Kanamori (Author), Toshiko Takezoe (Author), Masataka Takahashi (Author), Natuko Nakano (Author), Kentaro Matsuoka (Author), Masayoshi Osaku (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Familial angiolipomatosis is a rare inherited disease mainly diagnosed in the adult stage. It is usually inherited in an autosomal recessive manner; however, some cases of autosomal dominant mode of inheritance have been reported. The disease may be misdiagnosed as neurofibromatosis type I in some c...