Grandfather's, 54, agonising tumours has left him unable to eat, talk or speak
Subhash Chand, 54, from Uttar Pradesh state in India, suffers from a condition known as Neurofibromatosis or Von Recklinghausen's Disease. He developed the disorder at just 20 years old. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Teen whose facial tumour has left her blind has become a recluse
The growth has left Salibunnisa, 18, from the north Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, lind in one eye, as well as in excruciating pain every day. She suffers from neurofibromatosis. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Man's second face transplant is a world first
A man in Paris with a genetic disorder called neurofibromatosis has become the world's first to successfully receive two facial transplants. He is now debuting his third face. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - April 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pakistani man has an enormous tumour that covers half of his face
Ghulam Hyder, from Nawabshah in Pakistan's Sindh province, has neurofibromatosis - the umbrella term for a group of genetic conditions that cause lumps to grow along nerves. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 11, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mother-of-two suffers from neurofibromatosis, tumours on her face
Charmaine Sahadeo, 38, from Chaguanas, Trinidad, has three giant growths swamping her right leg, making it nearly impossible to stand or walk. She blames her appearance for her marriage breakdown. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pakistani teenager left bedridden by 44lbs tumour
Muhammad Essa Pallari, from Karachi, suffers from plexiform neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that affects the normal growth and development of cell tissue. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 26, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Plymouth researcher secures funding to further investigate treatment for neuro-tumors
(University of Plymouth) Dr Sylwia Ammoun from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry has secured £ 112,071 from Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity and Sparks, the medical research charity, to research further into hereditary condition Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2). Her work could offer hope to the thousands of, mainly young, people affected by NF2 - characterised by the development of multiple tumors of the nervous system. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 5, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
A cluster of mutations in neurofibromatosis is important risk factor for severe symptoms
(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Research led by Ludwine Messiaen shows that missense mutations in a cluster of just five codons in the NF1 gene are an important risk factor for severe symptoms of the genetic disease neurofibromatosis type 1. Such information is vital to help guide clinical management and genetic counseling in this complex disease, and it shows a potential need for increased disease surveillance of patients with missense mutations in that cluster -- specifically, codons 844 to 848. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - December 28, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
How Do You Perform the Adams Forward Bend Test?
Discussion
Scoliosis is a lateral and rotational curvature of the spine from a plumb line hanging from C7 to the floor.
Idiopathic scoliosis is the most common form. A review of scoliosis and its differential diagnosis can be found here.
Depending on the age, 2-4% of adolescents have a positive Adams Forward Bend Test when assessed and ~2% may have idiopathic scoliosis of > 10 degrees. Curve progression relates to the magnitude of the curve and the patient’s age. Thus increased risk of progression occurs in patients with higher curvature magnitude at diagnosis, females (earlier start of puberty and therefore pos...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - December 4, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Mother covered in thousands of bubble-like tumours
Sandra De Santos, 53, from Brazil, has had lumps growing on face and body since she was a teen. She has neurofibromatosis type-1, which was passed on to her son who died aged 6. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Reclusive teen with giant facial tumours has no friends
Rubi Dulari has neurofibromatosis which causes tumours to grow along nerves. The young woman, from northern India, was constantly bullied at school over her looks. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Children's Tumor Foundation and PLOS ONE are pleased to announce partnership
(PLOS) The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF) and PLOS ONE are collaborating on a new funding program in the area of neurofibromatosis (NF) research. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - September 26, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Mother and her daughters suffer from excruciating tumours
Sharon Phillips, 44, from Tredegar, along with her daughters Chelsea, 23, Courtenay, 17, and Tyanna, 14, suffer from neurofibromatosis type 1, which leaves them in excruciating pain. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Chester boy aged 2 trials breakthrough chemotherapy drug
Felicity Dawe, from Chester, was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type one when she was just three months old. She is now trialing a drug at Great Ormond Street Hospital. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pakistani man, 56, with hundreds of bubble-like tumours
Habib Ullah Khan, 56, from Karachi, has had his body ravaged by the small lumps - believed to be a form of neurofibromatosis. He said: 'People have ridiculed me throughout my life.' (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
