Multiple schwannomas in the peripheral nerves

Multiple schwannomas in the peripheral nerves.

Multiple tumours of peripheral nerves are often seen in patients with neurofibromatosis of type 1 or 2. Multiple schwannomas may occur without other manifestations of neurofibromatosis. We have reviewed 12 patients with multiple schwannomas arising from peripheral lesions who did not fulfil the criteria for either type of neurofibromatosis. Four had spinal and one an intracranial lesion in addi...

Multiple Peripheral Schwannomas

Multiple schwannomas of the digital nerves and superficial radial nerve: two unusual cases of segmental schwannomatosis.

Two cases of segmental sporadic schwannomatosis characterized by unusual location of multiple schwannomas in digital nerves (case 1) and the superficial radial nerve (case 2) are described in this paper. In the first of the described cases, 6 tumours located at the base of the middle finger and in its distal portion were excised from both digital nerves. In the second case, 3 tumours located in...

Multiple Sclerosis Revealed by Intrapontine Axial Lesion of Peripheral Nerves

Multiple sclerosis(MS) is most often revealed by motor, sensitive symptoms with paresthesia, ocular symptoms, and more seldom by symptoms with rapidly installed hearing loss and vertigo.We report an observation with initialsymptoms of a peripheral pathology mimicking a meningo-neuritis. A 22 years old young woman was addressed as anemergency for a sudden peripheral symptomatology associating a ...

Injuries to Peripheral Nerves

the proximal to the distal segment. These cells may be formed by the breaking up of the myelon sheath, and it is asserted by some of the exponents of centrifugal regeneration that it is by means of these newly-organized myelon fragments that a chemical attraction is created which enables the new axons to find their way into the partly obliterated distal cord. All this doubt and speculation make...