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Peripheral nerve tumours: 30-year experience in the surgical treatment
Peripheral nerve tumours are relatively rare type of soft tissue tumours. The aim of this work is to present our experience with surgical treatment...
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Hans Brun: a Swiss pioneer in the surgery of the spinal cord, brain and herniated lumbar disc
IntroductionToward the end of the nineteenth century, it was Gowers, Horsley and Macewen who first reported successful surgical procedures for the...
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Schwannoma: a rare benign tumor of soft tissues
‘Schwannomas are unusual benign tumors which arise from the surface of neural elements of the body or within the brain. They do not as a rule...
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An unusual timing for symptomatic chest pain in an adult chest wall myofibroma: a case report
IntroductionMyofibromas are benign mesenchymal neoplasms that can present as solitary and multicentric lesions. They can occur in several locations...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Metastatic ovarian papillary cystadenocarcinoma to the small intestine serous surface: report of a case of high-grade histopathologic malignancy
Ovarian cystadenocarcinoma is characterized by marked heterogeneity and may be composed of an admixture of histologic growth patterns, including...
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Would a Massive Intra-abdominal Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor with Growth into the Inguinal Canal and Scrotum Preclude Surgical Option? A Case Report and Review of Literature
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST) are rare spindle-cell sarcomas derived from Schwann cells or pluripotent cells of the neural crest...
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Imaging of the malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour with emphasis οn ultrasonography: correlation with MRI
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours affect 0.001 % of the population. The epithelioid subtype accounts for only 5 % of them. We herein present...
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Prognostic Factors and Oncological Outcomes of 122 Head and Neck Soft Tissue Sarcoma Patients Treated at a Single Institution
BackgroundHead and neck soft tissue sarcomas (HNSTS) are rare tumors with various histological types displaying different clinical behavior. As a...
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Morphologic and immunohistochemical features of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors and cellular schwannomas
Cellular schwannoma is an uncommon, but well-recognized, benign peripheral nerve sheath tumor, which can be misdiagnosed as malignant peripheral...
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Incidence Patterns of Primary Bone Cancer in Taiwan (2003–2010): A Population-Based Study
BackgroundPrimary bone cancer (BC) incidence by age has not been surveyed in Asia.
MethodsThe incidence patterns of nine subtypes of primary BCs...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Ulnar malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour diagnosis in a mixed-breed dog as a model to study human: histologic, immunohistochemical, and clinicopathologic study
Canine Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors (MPNSTs) are uncommonly reported in the ulnar, since they are underestimated relative to the more...
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Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the colon in a patient with von Recklinghausen’s disease: report of a case
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST) arising from the colon is an extremely rare clinical entity. We report one such case of an adult...
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Imaging appearances and clinical outcome following sacrectomy and ilio-lumbar reconstruction for sacral neoplasia
ObjectiveSacrectomy and ilio-lumbar reconstruction is an uncommonly performed complex surgical procedure for the treatment of sacral neoplasia. There...
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Microsurgical management of giant malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the scalp: two case reports and a literature review
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors of the scalp are rare lesions of the nervous system. Only 14 cases have been reported to date. The field of...
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Can HMGI-C be used as an aid with MDM2 and CDK4 to differentiate liposarcoma subtypes from their mimics?
PurposeLiposarcoma represents the most common soft tissue tumors in adults. The tumors are characterized by a high morphological diversity and a...
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Solid malignant retroperitoneal masses—a pictorial review
Primary retroperitoneal masses are a rare but important group of neoplasms. Cross-sectional imaging has revolutionised the investigation of patients...
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Cardiac myxosarcoma with thoracic spinal metastasis
Echocardiography revealed a left atrial tumor in a 59-year-old man with back pain that concurrently worsened with left foot drop and loss of the left...
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Lesions Originating Within the Retrorectal Space: A Diverse Group Requiring Individualized Evaluation and Surgery
BackgroundTumors occurring within the retrorectal space are rare and their low incidence has led to a paucity of literature regarding them.
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Surgical techniques for spinopelvic reconstruction following total sacrectomy: a systematic review
PurposeTo identify all available reconstruction methods for a total sacrectomy. Secondarily, we aimed to evaluate outcomes based on different...
