title: Giant neurothekeoma in the forearm of an infant.
abstract: Neurothekeomas are benign tumours of nerve sheath origin. Neurothekeomas present most commonly on the head and neck and upper extremities. These are usually small, slow growing tumours. Most patients with neurothekeoma are young women. We describe a 1-year-old infant with a large and extensive neurothekeoma in the upper extremity. We believe that our patient is one of the youngest cases and the tumour is probably the largest and most extensive neurothekeoma reported in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Gazi University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Safak
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uygur
authors.forename: Suhan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ayhan
authors.forename: Sebahattin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kandal
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gureli
authors.forename: Omer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Uluoglu
mesh_terms: D005542:Forearm / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D018321:Neurothekeoma / Q000473:pathology*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome