Case Report: Sciatic nerve schwannoma - a rare cause of sciatica

Herein we report a rare case of a sciatic nerve schwannoma causing sciatica in a 69-year-old female. Sciatic nerve schwannoma is a rare entity. It should always be considered as a possible cause of sciatica in patients that present with symptoms of sciatica with no prolapsed disc in the lumbar spine...

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Autores principales: Munakomi, Sunil, Shrestha, Pratyush
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000Research 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5365229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28413620
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.11108.1
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description Herein we report a rare case of a sciatic nerve schwannoma causing sciatica in a 69-year-old female. Sciatic nerve schwannoma is a rare entity. It should always be considered as a possible cause of sciatica in patients that present with symptoms of sciatica with no prolapsed disc in the lumbar spine and a negative crossed straight leg raise test. Timely diagnosis and complete excision of the lesion leads to complete resolution of the symptoms of such patients.
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spelling pubmed-53652292017-04-14 Case Report: Sciatic nerve schwannoma - a rare cause of sciatica Munakomi, Sunil Shrestha, Pratyush F1000Res Case Report Herein we report a rare case of a sciatic nerve schwannoma causing sciatica in a 69-year-old female. Sciatic nerve schwannoma is a rare entity. It should always be considered as a possible cause of sciatica in patients that present with symptoms of sciatica with no prolapsed disc in the lumbar spine and a negative crossed straight leg raise test. Timely diagnosis and complete excision of the lesion leads to complete resolution of the symptoms of such patients. F1000Research 2017-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5365229/ /pubmed/28413620 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.11108.1 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Munakomi S and Shrestha P http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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