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CASE REPORT

A retroperitoneal gastrointestinal schwannoma presenting as a perinephric mass

Ben H. Chew¹, Bodo E. Knudsen¹, Madeleine Moussa², Stephen E. Pautler¹

1 Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
2 Department of Pathology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Address to Dr. Stephen Pautler, Division of Urology, Unversity of Western Ontario, 268 Grosvenor Street, London, Ontario N6A 4V2 Canada

Canadian Journal of Urology 2005, 12(1), 2555-2556.

Abstract

There are less than 100 cases of retroperitoneal schwannoma reported in the world literature. These are differentiated from gastrointestinal schwannomas found in the gastrointestinal tract. A case of a rare retroperitoneal gastrointestinal schwannoma presenting as a perinephric tumor is described. Treatment of such masses is local excision and final diagnosis is from histopathology.

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