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World J Surg Oncol
January 2025
Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital of Jinan University, Tongfu Roud 396, Guangzhou, 510220, Guangdong, China.
Schwannomas are tumors that originate from the glial cells of the nervous system and can occur on myelinated nerve fibers throughout the body, especially in the craniofacial region. However, pancreatic schwannomas are extremely rare. We report a case of a pancreatic schwannoma that was difficult to differentiate from other pancreatic tumors preoperatively.
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August 2024
Radiology, Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital (Clinical Medical School of Yangzhou University), China.
Schwannomas are rarely detected in the pancreas. Preoperative diagnosis of this entity is still challenging so far, causing unnecessary radical resection, endoscopic ultrasonography or percutaneous biopsies. Presented here is a case of schwannoma occurring in the pancreatic head, confirmed by histopathology after pancreaticoduodenectomy.
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January 2023
Department of Pathology, Niigata City General Hospital, Niigata, Japan.
Medicine (Baltimore)
March 2022
Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China.
Rationale: Pancreatic schwannomas are extremely rare and are difficult to diagnose preoperatively. Over the past 50 years, only 96 cases of pancreatic schwannoma have been reported in English literature. Herein, we report a case of pancreatic schwannoma treated with enucleation.
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August 2021
Department of Surgery, Osaka Saiseikai Nakatsu Hospital, 2-10-39, Shibata, Kita-ku, Osaka, 530-0012, Japan.
Background: Plexiform schwannoma is one of the least common variants of schwannoma, accounting for only 5% of all schwannoma cases. It generally occurs in the skin and subcutaneous tissues and is uncommon in deep soft tissue or viscera. We present an extremely rare case of plexiform schwannoma arising from the peripancreatic plexus.
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