Solitary Schwannoma of the Cecum: Case Report and Review of the Literature
| Autor: | Eurivaldo Valente de Brito, Renato Mazon Lima Verde Leal, José Wilson Benevides de Mesquita Neto, Marcelo Leite Vieira Costa, Diego Fonseca Cordeiro |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Schwannoma medicine.medical_treatment Vimentin lcsh:RC254-282 Mitotic Count Published online: January 2013 Retroperitoneal tumor Cecum Gastrointestinal tract Laparotomy otorhinolaryngologic diseases Medicine Large intestine biology business.industry medicine.disease lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens Abdominal mass Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Oncology biology.protein Radiology medicine.symptom business S-100 protein |
| Zdroj: | Case Reports in Oncology Case Reports in Oncology, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 62-65 (2013) |
| ISSN: | 1662-6575 |
| Popis: | A 78-year-old woman presented with an abdominal mass diagnosed by ultrasound and computed tomography. The patient underwent a laparotomy, during which a retroperitoneal tumor adherent to the cecum wall was identified. Microscopically, it showed spindle-cell proliferation in whorls, with low mitotic count (2 per 50 high-power fields) and was strongly positive for S-100 protein and vimentin. The final diagnosis was benign schwannoma of the cecum and no further treatment was required. Large intestine schwannomas are extremely rare tumors and only a few cases of schwannoma of the cecum have been reported to date. |
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