Extraneural perineurioma of the face: an unusual cutaneous presentation of an uncommon tumour.
Perineurioma is an uncommon, benign tumour of the peripheral nerve sheath that has two major clinicopathological forms -- intraneural and extraneural. We present a case of extraneural perineurioma that occurred at an unusual site -- the facial skin of a 70-year-old woman -- which illustrates the wide, and potentially misleading, clinicopathological spectrum of this poorly recognized tumour.
Senghore
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Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
Cunliffe
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Watt-Smith
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Hollowood
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D000368:Aged; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018317:Nerve Sheath Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*