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São Paulo med. j ; 124(6): 333-335, Nov. 7, 2006. ilus
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-441172

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CONTEXT: Malignant neural sheath tumors of the trigeminal nerve affecting the nasal cavity and the paranasal sinuses are extremely rare. With conventional optical microscopy, their identification is difficult, and it is necessary to confirm them by means of electron microscopy and immunohistochemical techniques. CASE REPORT: The patient was a 41-year-old woman with a ten-month progressive history of pain followed by painful edema in the left facial region, and with symptoms of bleeding, secretion and nasal obstruction. Studies with imaging methods suggested the presence of an expansive process in the left nasal and paranasal cavities. In the biopsy, the histopathological findings from optical microscopy were suggestive of a tumor of neural origin in the trigeminal nerve. Immunohistochemical and electron microscopy studies confirmed that it was a malignant tumor of the neural sheath of the trigeminal nerve. We describe the clinical, radiological, and histological features of this tumor and review the literature.


CONTEXTO: O tumor maligno da bainha neural do trigêmeo que acomete a cavidade nasal e os seios paranasais é extremamente raro. A microscopia óptica habitual sua identificação é difícil, sendo necessária a confirmação através de microscopia eletrônica e de técnicas imunoistoquímicas. RELATO DE CASO: A paciente era uma mulher de 41 anos com história de 10 meses de progressiva dor seguida de edema álgico em região facial à esquerda, e de sintomas de sangramento, secreção e obstrução nasal. Estudos com métodos de imagem sugeriam a presença de processo expansivo em cavidades nasais e paranasais à esquerda. A biopsia, os achados histopatológicos à microscopia óptica foram sugestivos de tumor de origem neural no trigêmeo. Estudos imunoistoquímico e por microscopia eletrônica confirmaram se tratar de neoplasia maligna da bainha neural do trigêmeo. Descrevemos as características clínicas, radiológicas e histológicas deste tumor, e revisamos a literatura.


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Humans , Female , Adult , Maxillary Sinus Neoplasms/ultrastructure , Nerve Sheath Neoplasms/ultrastructure , Sarcoma/ultrastructure , Trigeminal Nerve/ultrastructure , Biopsy , Immunohistochemistry , Maxillary Sinus Neoplasms/therapy , Microscopy, Electron , Nerve Sheath Neoplasms/therapy , Sarcoma/therapy , Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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