Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2) and the Implications for Vestibular Schwannoma and Meningioma Pathogenesis.

Authors

Suha Bachir
Sanjit Shah
Scott Shapiro
Abigail Koehler
Abdelkader Mahammedi
Ravi N. Samy MD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Mario Zuccarello
Elizabeth Schorry
Soma Sengupta

Publication/Presentation Date

1-12-2021

Abstract

Patients diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) are extremely likely to develop meningiomas, in addition to vestibular schwannomas. Meningiomas are a common primary brain tumor; many NF2 patients suffer from multiple meningiomas. In NF2, patients have mutations in the

Volume

22

Issue

2

ISSN

1422-0067

Published In/Presented At

Bachir, S., Shah, S., Shapiro, S., Koehler, A., Mahammedi, A., Samy, R. N., Zuccarello, M., Schorry, E., & Sengupta, S. (2021). Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2) and the Implications for Vestibular Schwannoma and Meningioma Pathogenesis. International journal of molecular sciences, 22(2), 690. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22020690

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

33445724

Department(s)

Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology

Document Type

Article