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The illustration represents a man of forty who suffered from the disease since puberty. Pressure on the eyeball had started and the native said he expected that in two years he would lose his sight. His patient was a native of Great Britain. Among neuromata, multiple neurofibroma is of considerable interest, chiefly for the extent of general involvement.
Kennedy mentions an instance in which the tumor appeared as extremely tender tubercles. Tietze describes a woman of twenty-seven who exhibited a marked type of plexiform neurofibroma. The growth was simply excised and recovery was promptly effected. Carcinomatous growths, if left to themselves, make formidable devastations of the parts which they affect.
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