Spinal Malignant Schwannoma in a 5-Year-Old Boy: Ultrastructural Evidence of Its Perineurial Origin
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Pediatric Pathology
- Vol. 1 (2) , 211-219
- https://doi.org/10.3109/15513818309040659
Abstract
A case of a malignant spinal schwannoma in a 5-year-old boy is reported. Electron microscopic findings permitting the classification of the tumor and its possible origin from the nerve sheath (perineurial cell) are discussed.Keywords
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