title: Pancreatic schwannoma: an uncommon but important entity.
abstract: The literature contains five single case reports of pancreatic schwannoma-two of the five occurred in patients with von Recklinghausen's disease, and three of the five proved malignant. Within a 3-month period, we resected benign pancreatic schwannomas in two patients without von Recklinghausen's disease. Both patients presented with pain that led to the discovery of a complex pancreatic mass on abdominal CT scan. Pancreatic schwannoma should be included in the differential diagnosis of cystic or solid pancreatic abnormalities on imaging studies.
authors: Department of General, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery, Virginia Mason Medical Center, 1100 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98111, U.S.A.
authors: K M
authors: KM
authors: Almo
authors: L W
authors: LW
authors: Traverso
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009456:Neurofibromatosis 1; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*