Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, with metastasis to the heart: a case report

A rare case is presented of a 61-year-old man with a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, with metastasis to the heart. The primary tumor originated in the right thigh in 1982. Since then, the patient has had repeated local recurrences in spite of repeate...

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Autores principales: Kitamura, Masanori, Wada, Naoki, Nagata, Shigenori, Iizuka, Norishige, Jin, Yu-Fen, Tomoeda, Miki, Yuki, Michiko, Naka, Norifumi, Araki, Nobuhito, Yutani, Chikao, Tomita, Yasuhiko
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-5-2
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author Kitamura, Masanori
Wada, Naoki
Nagata, Shigenori
Iizuka, Norishige
Jin, Yu-Fen
Tomoeda, Miki
Yuki, Michiko
Naka, Norifumi
Araki, Nobuhito
Yutani, Chikao
Tomita, Yasuhiko
author_facet Kitamura, Masanori
Wada, Naoki
Nagata, Shigenori
Iizuka, Norishige
Jin, Yu-Fen
Tomoeda, Miki
Yuki, Michiko
Naka, Norifumi
Araki, Nobuhito
Yutani, Chikao
Tomita, Yasuhiko
author_sort Kitamura, Masanori
collection PubMed
description A rare case is presented of a 61-year-old man with a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, with metastasis to the heart. The primary tumor originated in the right thigh in 1982. Since then, the patient has had repeated local recurrences in spite of repeated surgical treatment and adjuvant chemotherapy. He has developed previous metastases of the lung and heart. The patient died of cardiac involvement.
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spelling pubmed-28810682010-06-05 Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, with metastasis to the heart: a case report Kitamura, Masanori Wada, Naoki Nagata, Shigenori Iizuka, Norishige Jin, Yu-Fen Tomoeda, Miki Yuki, Michiko Naka, Norifumi Araki, Nobuhito Yutani, Chikao Tomita, Yasuhiko Diagn Pathol Case Report A rare case is presented of a 61-year-old man with a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, with metastasis to the heart. The primary tumor originated in the right thigh in 1982. Since then, the patient has had repeated local recurrences in spite of repeated surgical treatment and adjuvant chemotherapy. He has developed previous metastases of the lung and heart. The patient died of cardiac involvement. BioMed Central 2010-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2881068/ /pubmed/20205747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-5-2 Text en Copyright ©2010 Kitamura et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Kitamura, Masanori
Wada, Naoki
Nagata, Shigenori
Iizuka, Norishige
Jin, Yu-Fen
Tomoeda, Miki
Yuki, Michiko
Naka, Norifumi
Araki, Nobuhito
Yutani, Chikao
Tomita, Yasuhiko
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, with metastasis to the heart: a case report
title Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, with metastasis to the heart: a case report
title_full Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, with metastasis to the heart: a case report
title_fullStr Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, with metastasis to the heart: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, with metastasis to the heart: a case report
title_short Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, with metastasis to the heart: a case report
title_sort malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, with metastasis to the heart: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-5-2
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