Malignant nerve sheath tumour arising in a benign ancient schwannoma.
A malignant nerve sheath tumour arising in a longstanding benign schwannoma in a 75-year-old woman is described. Malignant change of this kind is extremely rare; there appear to be only four convincing previously reported cases.
Rasbridge
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Department of Histopathology, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, UK.
Browse
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Tighe
J R
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Fletcher
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D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000473:pathology*