Fig. 8From: The clothes maketh the signChest radiograph (a) and coronal CT of the thorax (b) in a 25-year-old woman with cutaneous lesions demonstrating bilateral rib deformities that resemble ribbons. Well-defined erosions of either the superior or inferior margins of ribs secondary to plexiform neurofibromas and are a common manifestation of neurofibromatosis 1. The coronal CT reconstruction delineates a neurofibroma replacing the intercostal fat (b, arrow)Back to article page