Neurofibromatosis type 1 and the "elephant man's" disease: the confusion persists: an ethnographic study.
<h4>Background</h4>In 1986, two Canadian geneticists had demonstrated that Joseph Merrick, better known as the Elephant Man, suffered from the Proteus syndrome and not from neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), as was alleged by dermatologist Parkes in 1909. Despite this and although the two d...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011
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