Melanotic Sarcomata

The Surgery of Sarcomata

Methotrexate in treatment of sarcomata.

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Skeletal sarcomata and giant-cell tumour.

There is no universal agreement on a classification of bone tumours. Iany of the existing methods are based on varying criteria and consequently the nomenclature is confused. Numerous descriptive terms are employed to denote only minor and irrelevant differences in essentially similar tumours. If a classification is to be more than an academic exercise, the diagnosis of a particular type of tum...

Intramedullary melanotic schwannoma

We present a case of an intramedullary melanotic schwannoma (IMS) of the thoracic spinal cord. To our knowledge, this is the seventh reported case of an IMS of the central nervous system. Schwannomas are benign nerve sheath tumors of neural crest origin composed entirely of well differentiated Schwann cells that typically occur in peripheral nerves. Both the intramedullary location and the mela...

Spinal melanotic schwannomas.

1 MD, Department of Neurosurgery, Bom Jesus Hospital, Ponta Grossa PR, Brazil; 2 MD, Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo SP, Brazil; 3 MD, Sample Laboratory, Bom Jesus Hospital, Ponta Grossa PR, Brazil; 4 MD, PhD Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, USP, São Paulo SP, Brazil; 5 MD, PhD Full Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Sc...