title: Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor with extensive miliary metastases: a case report.
abstract: We report the course of a 19-year-old female who presented with a 13-year history of an occipital dermal tumor. Only five weeks after excision, the patient succumbed to cerebral dysregulation due to extensive miliary cerebral, hepatic, and pulmonary metastasis. The histologic features of the surgical specimen and the autopsy material differed suspiciously: a peculiar malignant progression of the tumor seemed to have occurred within five weeks.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuropathology, University of Münster, Germany.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Probst-Cousin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schaus
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Feldt
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Al-Dandashi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gullotta
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000032:analysis; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019394:Ki-67 Antigen / Q000032:analysis; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry / Q000556:secondary; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry / Q000556:secondary; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D018317:Nerve Sheath Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry / Q000556:secondary*; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry / Q000473:pathology*; D009418:S100 Proteins / Q000032:analysis; D014746:Vimentin / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D019394:Ki-67 Antigen; D009418:S100 Proteins; D014746:Vimentin