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Multiple cafe-au-lait spots and plexiform neurofibromas in a patient with Neurofibromatosis Type 1.
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The patient had a prior diagnosis of NF1 (multiple cafe-au-lait spots, plexiform neurofibromas, and freckling in the axilla; Figure 1) and had been prescribed carbamazepine for symptomatic epilepsy after childhood surgery for brain tumors (unknown), without other comorbidities.
(a) Arrowheads: Extra and intracranial collateral circulation; black arrow: severe stenosis of the ICA; blue arrow: maxillary artery; (b) vertebral artery pseudoaneurysm; (c) fibromuscular dysplasia; (d) 3D reconstruction of vertebral artery pseudoaneurysm.
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A pseudoaneurysm was also observed in the extracranial portion of the right vertebral artery (Figure 2).
MRI showing a brain infarction in the right frontoparietal region.
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Brain MRI showed the limits of an area of brain infarction in the right frontoparietal region (Figure 3).