Schwannoma with concomitant tuberculosis in the adrenal gland

Schwannoma is a rare primary tumor originating in the neural sheath with a good prognosis. The management is surgical. We present a case in which a retroperitoneal mass arising from the adrenal gland was excised and histopathology revealed a schwannoma with coexisting tuberculosis. This case report...

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Autores principales: Gazula, Suhasini, Mammen, Kim J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2721582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19718306
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.36724
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description Schwannoma is a rare primary tumor originating in the neural sheath with a good prognosis. The management is surgical. We present a case in which a retroperitoneal mass arising from the adrenal gland was excised and histopathology revealed a schwannoma with coexisting tuberculosis. This case report highlights the need to be aware of the potential coexistence of tuberculosis in any case of incidentaloma, especially due to resurgence of tuberculosis as a global epidemic with the increasing incidence of HIV and AIDS. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a schwannoma and tuberculosis coexisting in the adrenal gland.
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spelling pubmed-27215822009-08-29 Schwannoma with concomitant tuberculosis in the adrenal gland Gazula, Suhasini Mammen, Kim J. Indian J Urol Case Report Schwannoma is a rare primary tumor originating in the neural sheath with a good prognosis. The management is surgical. We present a case in which a retroperitoneal mass arising from the adrenal gland was excised and histopathology revealed a schwannoma with coexisting tuberculosis. This case report highlights the need to be aware of the potential coexistence of tuberculosis in any case of incidentaloma, especially due to resurgence of tuberculosis as a global epidemic with the increasing incidence of HIV and AIDS. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a schwannoma and tuberculosis coexisting in the adrenal gland. Medknow Publications 2007 /pmc/articles/PMC2721582/ /pubmed/19718306 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.36724 Text en © Indian Journal of Urology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Schwannoma with concomitant tuberculosis in the adrenal gland
title Schwannoma with concomitant tuberculosis in the adrenal gland
title_full Schwannoma with concomitant tuberculosis in the adrenal gland
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title_short Schwannoma with concomitant tuberculosis in the adrenal gland
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2721582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19718306
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.36724
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