Single root multiple spinal schwannomas: Case report, treatment strategy and review of literature.

Introduction: Schwannomatosis is defined as multiple schwannomas without presence of neurofibromatosis and is a rare pathology. In vast majority of cases the schwannomas grow from different nerve roots or peripheral nerves.

Presentation Of Case: A 52-year-old woman presented with multiple intradural schwannomas arranged in a chain along the spinal canal causing significant compression.

A multidisciplinary approach for the treatment of young patients with suprasellar osteochondroma.

Background: Osteochondroma is the most common benign bone tumor; intracranial osteochondroma is a very rare finding in the neurosurgical literature and most of them arise from the skull base.

Case Report: We report a case of suprasellar ostheocondroma in a 16-year-old female, with its CT and MRI appearances, which caused visual deficits, resolved after surgery.

Discussion: To our knowledge, this is the fifth case of osteochondroma affecting the suprasellar region that has been reported, with all the characteristic features of this tumor: optic chiasmal syndrome, intralesional calcifications, cartilage cap, and contrast enhancement.

Hyperplastic mesothelial cells in subpleural lymph nodes mimicking metastatic carcinoma.

We describe a patient with a history of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the stomach in whom hyperplastic mesothelial cell inclusions were present in subpleural lymph nodes. The involved lymph nodes were embedded in a lipoma in the parietal pleura. The role of histochemistry and immunohistochemistry in the differentiation of these inclusions from metastatic carcinoma is discussed.