Recurrence of spinal schwannoma: Is it preventable?

Spinal schwannomas account for about 25% of primary intradural spinal cord tumors in adult. The prognosis for spinal schwannomas is excellent in most cases. Complete resection is curative. However following subtotal removal, recurrence develops after several years. We describe a case of recurrent sp...

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Autores principales: Senapati, Satya B., Mishra, Sudhansu S., Dhir, Manmath K., Patnaik, Ashis, Panigrahi, Souvagya
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27695564
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.145060
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author Senapati, Satya B.
Mishra, Sudhansu S.
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description Spinal schwannomas account for about 25% of primary intradural spinal cord tumors in adult. The prognosis for spinal schwannomas is excellent in most cases. Complete resection is curative. However following subtotal removal, recurrence develops after several years. We describe a case of recurrent spinal schwannoma who had been operated twice before for same disease. The possible cause of recurrence and difficulties in reoperation are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-49749852016-10-01 Recurrence of spinal schwannoma: Is it preventable? Senapati, Satya B. Mishra, Sudhansu S. Dhir, Manmath K. Patnaik, Ashis Panigrahi, Souvagya Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Spinal schwannomas account for about 25% of primary intradural spinal cord tumors in adult. The prognosis for spinal schwannomas is excellent in most cases. Complete resection is curative. However following subtotal removal, recurrence develops after several years. We describe a case of recurrent spinal schwannoma who had been operated twice before for same disease. The possible cause of recurrence and difficulties in reoperation are discussed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4974985/ /pubmed/27695564 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.145060 Text en Copyright: © Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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