Granular cell tumour of the ulnar nerve.
Although granular cell tumours have been demonstrated to have a neural origin, they rarely arise in peripheral nerve trunks. We report a case of granular cell tumour of the ulnar nerve in a 51-year-old man. Though dissectable from the nerve, this intraneural tumour showed microscopic involvement of focal nerve fibres. This tumour tended to infiltrate the nerve in the same manner as a neurofibroma.
Yasutomi
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Department of Orthopaedics, Shiokawa Hospital, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. yasutomi@shiokawa.y-min.or.jp
Koike
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Nakatsuchi
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Y
D016586:Granular Cell Tumor / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006225:Hand / Q000294:innervation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014459:Ulnar Nerve / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*