Case Report

Two Rare Breast Tumors in a Small Community Hospital

Rhabdomyosarcoma and schwannoma are two of the rarer tumors seen in the surgical setting, and it is rarer still to see these tumors originate in the breast. Rhabdomyosarcoma has an incidence of only 250 cases a year in the United States; of these, more than 90% are seen in individuals…

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Intramuscular Schwannoma Arising from the Psoas Muscle Presenting with Femoral Nerve Neuropathy

A spherical mass of the right psoas muscle was found incidentally by magnetic resonance health examination in a 43-year-old woman. The patient had complained of numbness in her right leg over the previous six months and neuralgia at the time of computed tomography-guided core biopsy, which was done to establish…

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Evaluation of Perinephric, Retroperitoneal Schwannomas: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Schwannomas are tumors arising from the nerve sheath. Because of their infrequent occurrence, nonspecific symptoms, and lack of distinguishing radiologic features, schwannomas are most often diagnosed histologically after surgical excision. We report herein a case of a perinephric, retroperitoneal schwannoma which, after evaluation by computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and angiography,…

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