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| Low grade malignant schwannoma of tibial nerve | ||||||
| Horia Orban1, Gabriel Stan2, Boris Feghiu3, Mihaela Dragusanu3, George Simion4 | ||||||
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1Head of Department, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Elias Universitary Hospital, Bucharest, Romania.
2Specialist, Surgeon, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Elias Universitary Hospital, Bucharest, Romania. 3Surgeon, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Elias Universitary Hospital, Bucharest, Romania. 4Anatomo-pathologist, Emergency Universitary Hospital, Bucharest, Romania. | ||||||
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| Orban H, Stan G, Feghiu B, Dragusanu M, Simion G. Low grade malignant schwannoma of tibial nerve. Int J Case Rep Images 2014;5(10):671–674. |
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Abstract
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Introduction:
The aim of this paper is to report a rare case of a sizeable low grade malignant schwannoma of the posterior tibial nerve and to underline the method of treatement.
Case Report: A 37-year-old white male presented himself with a slowly growing mass in his left calf. According to the slower rate of growing and to the mobility of the tumor diagnosis was oriented to a benign lesion of posterior calf muscles. The decision was to perform a excisional biopsy of the tumor. The examined tumor was classified as low-grade malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor. We did not have a suspicion of malignancy in our case due to the slowly growing rate. The treatment performed was surgical excision of the tumor with adequate exposure of normal nerve proximally and distally. Conclusion: Clinical and radiological findings of this case suggested a benign tumor. According to this, the decision was to perform a excisional biopsy of the tumoral mass and not only a biopsy first. | |
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Keywords:
Malignant schwannoma, Marginal excision, Survival rate, Neurofibromatosis, Tibial nerve
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Author Contributions
Horia Orban – Substantial contributions to conceptions and design, Acquisition of data,Analisys and interpretation of data, Drafting the article, Revising it critically for important intellectual content, Final approval of the version to be published Gabriel Stan – Substantial contributions to conceptions and design, Acquisition of data, Analisys and interpretation of data, Drafting the article, Revising it critically for important intellectual content, Final approval of the version to be published Boris Feghiu – Substantial contributions to conceptions and design, Acquisition of data, Drafting the article, Final approval of the version to be published Mihaela Dragusanu – Substantial contributions to conceptions and design, Acquisition of data, Drafting the article, Final approval of the version to be published George Simion – Substantial contributions to conceptions and design, Acquisition of data, Drafting the article, Final approval of the version to be published |
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Guarantor of submission
The corresponding author is the guarantor of submission. |
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Conflict of interest
Authors declare no conflict of interest. |
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Copyright
© 2014 Horia Orban et al. This article is distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original author(s) and original publisher are properly credited. Please see the copyright policy on the journal website for more information. |
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