Melanotic nonpsammomatous trigeminal schwannoma as the first manifestation of Carney complex: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Carrasco, Carmen A ^a   Rojas Salazar, David ^b   Chiorino, Renato ^b   Venega, Juan C ^b   Wohllk, Nelson ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Carney complex; Cranial schwannoma; Melanotic schwannoma

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOMA; CARNEY COMPLEX; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE; DIPLOPIA; ECHOGRAPHY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENTIGINOSIS; MALE; MELANOTIC SCHWANNOMA; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRKAR1A GENE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYNDROME DELINEATION; THYROID NODULE; TOOTH PAIN; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; ENDOCRINE GLAND NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MENINGIOMA; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; SYNDROME; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION;

EID: 33845679736     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000245608.07570.D2     Document Type: Article

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