A Rare Cause of Lung Emphysema: Neurofibromatosis

Neurofibromatosis (NF) is an autosomal dominant inheritance or spontaneous mutation disease. Skin, eyes, central and peripheral nervous system lesions are characteristic. It is evaluated NF type 1 and NF type 2. NF-1 is the most common type of the disease, and described by von Recklinghausen in 1882. Cutaneous and subcutaneous neurofibromas, kyphoscoliosis, rib deformities, thoracic neoplasms, bullous, emphysematous and fibrotic changes could be seen on chest wall and lung parenchyma. We aimed to report this case with a rare cause of lung emph-ysema and the effects of the involvement of the NF-1 to the lung parenchyma.