title: Paediatric laryngeal malignant nerve sheath tumour.
abstract: Malignant nerve sheath tumours (MNSTs) are more frequently diagnosed in the extremities, the chest wall and the abdominal wall. Laryngeal MNST is an extremely rare occurrence, particularly in children. We treated a laryngeal recurrence of MNST in a 13-year-old boy with chemotherapy followed by horizontal supraglottic laryngectomy extended to left arytenoid and ipsilateral vocal fold and bilateral neck dissection. Four years later, hemithyroidectomy was performed for thyroid MNST recurrence. At present, 6 years after last intervention, the patient shows no evidence of recurrent disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Vittorio Veneto Hospital, Vittorio Veneto, Italy. marco.lucioni@alice.it
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lucioni
authors.forename: Gino
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Marioni
authors.forename: Duilio
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Della Libera
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rizzotto
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D007823:Laryngeal Nerves / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male