[Presacral malignant schwannoma].
In a woman patient who was 69 years of age and who was free from complaints and symptoms we identified a cystic solid and partly calcified tumour of 11 X 9 X 7 cm size in the lower abdomen, as well as two circular pulmonary foci that were suspected of being malignant. Clinical, sonographical and radiological findings led to the suspected diagnosis of a pulmonary metastasizing ovarian carcinoma. However, laparotomy revealed that the tumour site was presacral and retroperitoneal. The tumour was extirpated, and the histological diagnosis was that of a malignant schwannoma. No radiotherapy or chemotherapy was initiated because of the slender changes of success and the considerable side effects. Clinical pattern, problems of diagnosis and the prognosis of these rare malignomas are discussed.
Scharl
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Universitäts-Frauenklinik Köln.
Fëaux de Lacroix
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Hönig
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Bolte
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D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D012447:Sacrum / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery
Präsakrales malignes Schwannom.