title: Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of mandible.
abstract: Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor is a common tumor that rarely affects the head and neck region. The patient presented in this report is a teenage girl presented with a lesion in the right body of the mandible with severe disfigurement of the lower face. The lesion was first histopathologically diagnosed as embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma. After excision, however, the histopathology report proved the diagnosis of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor.
authors.affiliation: Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 30912-1122, USA.
authors.forename: Ibrahim
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Zakhary
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elsalanty
authors.forename: Ilia
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ishag
authors.forename: Taher
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Taher
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hassan
authors.forename: Rafi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gehani
authors.forename: Marai
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Orafi
authors.forename: Hatem
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: El-Mekkawi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001860:Bone Plates; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008339:Mandibular Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D018317:Nerve Sheath Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures