Adult peripheral neuroblastoma.
Report of clinical features, diagnostic and surgical aspects observed in a case of adult peripheral neuroblastoma infiltrative of the lumbosacral plexuses. The patient, a 39-year-old male, presented with sciatalgia and progressive crural monoplegia. Characteristic histological features of this rare tumor are described. Surgical resection was attempted via a posterior transgluteal approach to the retroperitoneum through the greater sciatic foramen.
Rossitti
S L
SL
Departamento de Neurocirurgia, Hospital Vera Cruz, Campinas, Brasil.
De Matos
P S
PS
Balbo
R J
RJ
Zuiani
A R
AR
Thomaz
I R
IR
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed