PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sedat İsikay
AU  - Kutluhan Yilmaz
TI  - Cerebral multicystic lesions in a child with neurofibromatosis
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2012-007639
DP  - 2013 Jan 25
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr-2012-007639
VI  - 2013
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2013/bcr-2012-007639.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2013/bcr-2012-007639.full
AB  - Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1) is an autosomal dominant neurocutaneous syndrome, with frequent involvement of the central nervous system (CNS). As well as abnormal cellular differentiation, disordered cell migration during development is the most common cause of the various brain lesions. Cystic lesions are rarely observed in neurocutaneous diseases, and the origin of the cysts is not known. This paper presents a rare case, a child at the age of 3, who was diagnosed as NF-1 and was observed to have asymptomatic cystic lesions in right temporal lobe in radiological examination of CNS. This study draws attention to the relationship between these rare cystic lesions of unknown origin and neurocutaneous diseases.