title: Recurrent malignant schwannoma of the small bowel.
abstract: Primary malignant schwannoma of the small bowel is an extremely rare disease. Only 24 malignant schwannomas of the small bowel have been reported in the medical English literature. We report a primary malignant schwannoma of the distal ileum in a 53-year-old woman, who was admitted to the hospital because of abdominal pain. CT scan revealed a semisolid mass in the small intestine of the serosa. The tumour measuring 14 x 13 x 8 cm and 100 cm of the distal ileum were resected. We observed a recurrence after seventeen months and the recurrent tumour measured 6 x 2.5 x 1 cm was excised.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dicle Unversity, Diyarbakir, Turkey. fyilmaz@dicle.edu.tr
authors.forename: Fahri
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
authors.forename: Ali Kemal
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Uzunlar
authors.forename: Yaşar
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bükte
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography; D012086:Reoperation