A rare case of schwannomatosis of the extremities

A schwannoma is a benign tumor that arises from the myelin-producing Schwann cells that surround nerves. We herein report a case involving a 55-year-old man who first presented to our clinic with a schwannoma of the posterior tibial nerve and 5 years later with a schwannoma of the ulnar nerve. This...

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Autores principales: Fodor, Lucian, Samuila, Sergiu, Bodog, Florian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7503024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32938291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060520952278
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description A schwannoma is a benign tumor that arises from the myelin-producing Schwann cells that surround nerves. We herein report a case involving a 55-year-old man who first presented to our clinic with a schwannoma of the posterior tibial nerve and 5 years later with a schwannoma of the ulnar nerve. This is the first report of schwannomatosis of the ulnar and posterior tibial nerves.
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spelling pubmed-75030242020-09-28 A rare case of schwannomatosis of the extremities Fodor, Lucian Samuila, Sergiu Bodog, Florian J Int Med Res Case Report A schwannoma is a benign tumor that arises from the myelin-producing Schwann cells that surround nerves. We herein report a case involving a 55-year-old man who first presented to our clinic with a schwannoma of the posterior tibial nerve and 5 years later with a schwannoma of the ulnar nerve. This is the first report of schwannomatosis of the ulnar and posterior tibial nerves. SAGE Publications 2020-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7503024/ /pubmed/32938291 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060520952278 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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