Spontaneous Flexor Tendon Rupture Developed in Neurofibromatosis

Abstract

Neurofibromatosis is a disease with an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern and it affects different organ systems. In neurofibromatosis cases, cases with a spontaneous flexor tendon rupture depending on intratendinous neurofibroma proliferation in hand were reported. In our study, tendon rupture in the hand of 34-year-old female patient with neurofibromatosis was presented. Unlike literature in this case, we are of opinion that the disease has degenerative effect instead of neurofibroma mass effect of tendon rupture.