Ossified median nerve schwannoma: a case report.
A case of ossified median nerve schwannoma in the left arm, first noticed about 40 years ago is examined. Although calcification of old schwannoma is sometimes seen, new bone formation in a schwannoma is extremely rare. Since there was a strong adhesion between the tumour and the median nerve in this case, the tumour could not be enucleated easily. The tumour was excised under a surgical microscopy without any neurological deficit.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical Center, Kanazawa 920-8650, Japan. ikeikemed@yahoo.co.jp
Kazuo
K
Ikeda
Naoki
N
Osamura
Satomi
S
Kasashima
D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008475:Median Nerve / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000379:methods*; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009999:Ossification, Heterotopic; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*