Ancient schwannoma of lumbar spine and review of the literature on paraspinal tumors, the role of preoperative biopsy: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Schwannomas are rare encapsulated tumors that derive from the nerve sheath and should be removed due to their infrequent, but existent possibility of malignancy. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a mass located in the L5 lumbar spine in a 42 year old man, presented with intermitte...

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Autores principales: Antonopoulos, Constantine, Lilimpakis, Constantine, Karagianni, Maria, Daskalopoulou, Dimitra, Kyriakou, Theodoulos, Vagianos, Constantine
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2806391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20072675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9325

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