Breast Schwannoma

Schwannomas arise from Schwann cells of the peripheral nerve sheath. The most common locations include the head, neck, and extensor surfaces of the extremities. Intramammary schwannomas are very rare and account for only 2.6% of schwannomas. A review of the English literature reveals 27 such cases o...

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Autores principales: Dialani, Vandana, Hines, Neely, Wang, Yihong, Slanetz, Priscilla
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21331341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/930841
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author Dialani, Vandana
Hines, Neely
Wang, Yihong
Slanetz, Priscilla
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Hines, Neely
Wang, Yihong
Slanetz, Priscilla
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description Schwannomas arise from Schwann cells of the peripheral nerve sheath. The most common locations include the head, neck, and extensor surfaces of the extremities. Intramammary schwannomas are very rare and account for only 2.6% of schwannomas. A review of the English literature reveals 27 such cases of breast schwannoma. In this paper we describe another such rare case.
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spelling pubmed-30387792011-02-17 Breast Schwannoma Dialani, Vandana Hines, Neely Wang, Yihong Slanetz, Priscilla Case Rep Med Case Report Schwannomas arise from Schwann cells of the peripheral nerve sheath. The most common locations include the head, neck, and extensor surfaces of the extremities. Intramammary schwannomas are very rare and account for only 2.6% of schwannomas. A review of the English literature reveals 27 such cases of breast schwannoma. In this paper we describe another such rare case. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3038779/ /pubmed/21331341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/930841 Text en Copyright © 2011 Vandana Dialani et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Dialani, Vandana
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Slanetz, Priscilla
Breast Schwannoma
title Breast Schwannoma
title_full Breast Schwannoma
title_fullStr Breast Schwannoma
title_full_unstemmed Breast Schwannoma
title_short Breast Schwannoma
title_sort breast schwannoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038779/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/930841
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