We report a very rare case of giant schwannomas of the sciatic nerve in a 39-year-old woman who presented with increasing swelling and discomfort in the posterior aspect of her right thigh. We ...

Pathology was characteristic of benign schwannoma. We recommend that penile schwannomas be excised if the tumors cause pain or are malignant. Disclosure: Wayne Young Liu, MD, has disclosed no ...

Primary tracheal schwannomas are rare benign tumours. This is a case report, and therefore, no specific methods or results are applicable. We here report a case of a tracheal schwannoma in an early ...

Cathy A. Haft For more than 20 years Haft has been monitored for a rare disease called genetic schwannomatosis, which causes benign tumors called schwannomas to grow on nerves, causing pressure that ...

The Facial Nerve Schwannoma Center offers a comprehensive multi-specialty approach and expertise in the management and treatment of facial nerve schwannomas. Each person with a facial nerve schwannoma ...

They can develop in any part of the body, at the skin surface or deep inside. Some become large and disfiguring. Schwannomas arise in Schwann cells, which form the protective nerve sheath. Most ...

Conclusions The available evidence indicates radiosurgery to be the best practice for solitary vestibular schwannomas up to 30 mm in cisternal diameter. The literature search yielded cohort studies ...

Background Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is an autosomal dominant condition with high spontaneous mutation rate which predisposes to the development of multiple nerve sheath tumours (schwannomas), ...

Several types of tumors can grow within the spine and peripheral nerves, including: Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST) Neurofibromas Schwannomas The Peripheral Nerve Surgery Center team ...

Telephone 0044 161 276 6206; fax 0044 161 276 6145. BACKGROUND Some 4%-5% of those who develop vestibular schwannomas have neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2). Although about 10% of these patients present ...

Telephone 0044 115 924 9924; fax 0044 115 970 9748. OBJECTIVES Non-acoustic tumours of the cerebellopontine angle differ from vestibular schwannomas in their prevalence, clinical features, operative ...

A 41-year-old man presented to our hospital in December 2005 with multifocal penile masses (Figure1). The tumors were located on the penile shaft and had been enlarging gradually for the past 5 ...