Acoustic cellular schwannoma invading the petrous bone: case report.
Cellular schwannoma, a variant of benign schwannomas characterized by a high pseudosarcomatous cellularity, rarely involves the cranial nerves. In this report, we present the case of a 74-year-old woman with a cellular schwannoma of the VIIIth cranial nerve, which recurred from an ordinary schwannoma resected 9 years before. The tumor has been controlled for 35 months by a simple re-excision, indicating the benign nature of this tumor, although the tumor showed bone destruction and a high MiB-1 labeling ratio.
Ishii
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Department of Neurosurgery, University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan.
Sawamura
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Tada
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Abe
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D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D010579:Petrous Bone / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D000159:Vestibulocochlear Nerve / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery