Malignant schwannoma of the sciatic nerve originating in a spinal plexiform neurofibroma associated with neurofibromatosis type 1

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 551-555

  Topsakal, Cahide ^a   Akdemir, Ismail ^a   Tiftikci, Murat ^a   Ozercan, Ibrahim ^a   Aydin, Yunus ^b  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SISLI ETFAL TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor; Malignant schwannoma; Neurilemmoma; Neurofibroma; Von Recklinghausen's disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEURILEMOMA; METASTASIS; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PROGNOSIS; SCIATIC NERVE;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEURILEMMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA, PLEXIFORM; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; NEUROFIBROSARCOMA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035200733     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.41.551     Document Type: Article

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