Schwannomas are benign, slow growing, encapsulated tumours that originate from the Schwann cells. Intraoral schwannomas are rare, and most of these tumours involve the tongue. They are rarely located in the hard palate or in the facial soft tissue. Herein, we present the clinical and histological features as well as the prognoses of two male patients with schwannoma, one of which was localized ...

Schwannomas are benign nerve sheath tumors composed of Schwann cells, which normally produce the insulating myelin sheath covering peripheral, cranial and autonomic nerves. Twenty-five to forty-five percent of all schwannomas occur in the head and neck region, but location of such tumors in the larynx is rarely observed. The present report is aimed at describing a clinical case of laryngeal sch...

Article history: Received 31 January 2017 Accepted 31 January 2017 Available online 1 February 2017 meningiomas and schwannomas. The paper from Bassiri et al. (2017) contributes an important step forward to fill this gap. Using proteome and phospho-proteome approaches, they analyzed both primary cells from merlin deficient meningiomas and schwannomas in comparison to non-tumorous Schwann cells ...

Schwannomas are rare benign tumours of nerve sheath cells of neural crest origin. Often these tumours are solitary and encapsulated. Multiple schwannomas can arise from the peripheral nervous system including cranial nerves, spinal roots, the brachial and lumbar-sacral plexus or major peripheral nerves. We report an extremely rare case of schwannomatosis of the sciatic nerve in a young female a...

Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP) is an autosomal dominant demyelinating peripheral neuropa-thy. The classical clinical presentation consists of recurrent, transitory, and painless focal neuropathies, mostly at sites of peripheral nerve entrapment and often triggered by minor nerve trauma. 1 Anatomopathological examinations reveal seg-mental demyelination and remyeli...

Schwannomas are benign tumors mostly arising from the head and neck. Retroperitoneal schwannomas are rare. Here we report the case of a 68-year-old woman with multiple retroperitoneal schwannomas. An abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan showed 1 non-enhancing mass with a low-density area, 4.6 cm in diameter, in the left adrenal region and another non-enhancing mass with a low-density area, 2...

Schwannomas of the brain parenchyma are extremely rare, occurring mostly in children and young adults. Fewer than 50 cases have been reported in the English-language literature. Isolated temporal lobe epilepsy is a rare presentation of intracerebral schwannomas, with only 2 reported cases. The authors present the case of a 51-year-old woman with a 4-year history of medication-refractory seizure...

INTRODUCTION Schwannomas are benign and not very frequent tumors of the peripheral nerves, derived from the nerve supporting Schwann cells. STUDY DESIGN Data were collected on the clinical manifestations (sex, age), location, size and symptonts of the lesions as well as the evolution time and the initial (presumption) diagnosis. RESULTS Twelve patients were documented, with a mean age of 29...