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

ABSTRACT

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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Arq. neuropsiquiatr ; 55(4): 680-6, dez. 1997. ilus
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-209364

ABSTRACT

The V and VII cranial nerves of rats inoculated with rabies virus were studied by electron microscopy. The results were compared with the same cranial nerves of rats inoculated with rabies virus but vaccinated against the disease. The findings are those of axonal degeneration and intense demyelination of the nerves of the group of rats not vaccinated. The vaccinated rats showed some ultrastructural irrelevant alterations when compared with the other group. The degreee of ultrastructural alterations found in the group of rats not vaccinated suggests that in rabies severe damage of the cranial nerves occurs and that this may be closely related to the clinical picture of the disease (hydrophobia). Furthermore, as far as the authors know, this has not been considered in the classic descriptions of rabies and it is possible that an immunologic process may take part in the demyelination observed in the present study.


Subject(s)
Male , Animals , Rats , Facial Nerve/ultrastructure , Rabies virus/immunology , Rabies/immunology , Trigeminal Nerve/ultrastructure , Axons/ultrastructure , Facial Nerve/virology , Fluorescent Antibody Technique , Myelin Sheath/ultrastructure , Rabies virus/ultrastructure , Rabies/pathology , Rats, Wistar , Trigeminal Nerve/virology
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An. anat. norm ; 5(5): 196-203, 1987. tab
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-98337

ABSTRACT

Desde que Dandy (1934) asoció la comprensión de las raíces del V par con la neuralgia, muchas publicaciones se han referido al problema. En este trabajo, nuestros objetivos se orientaron a estudiar la estructura y la irrigación del V par, para buscar una probable asociación entre éstas con las alteraciones dolorosas del trigémino. Para realizar nuestro estudio se inyectaron 30 nervios de perro con a) gelatina y tinta china; b) látex neopreno; c) acrílico de autopolimeración. Los especímenes inyectados con los medios a) y b) fueron diafanizados según técnica de Spalteholtz y los con c) fueron corroídos con Na OH. Posteriormente este material diafanizado y/o teñido con Hematoxilina-Eosina fue estudiado bajo microscopio óptico con aumentos de 4x, 10x, 40x y 100x. Los especímenes inyectados con acrílico fueron observados bajo microscopía electrónica de barrido. Entre las conclusiones más importantes podemos indicar: 1. Las raíces poseen un perineuro muy escaso y el ipineuro está prácticamente ausente. 2. Existe un área de las raíces, cercano al puente, donde se observa una menor densidad vascular. 3. Esta área coincide con la ubicación de las comprensiones vasculares descritas por los autores consultados, especialmente en enfermedades con neuralgia al trigémino. 4. El ganglio tiene una abundante irrigación, especialmente alrededor de las neuronas (anillos vasculares). 5. Las irrigaciones de los ramos periféricos es muy abundante y semejante a los otros nervios periféricos. Las raíces por su estructura y vascularización representan el área más débil del V par, frente a cualquier traumatismo o comprensión


Subject(s)
Humans , Trigeminal Nerve/blood supply , Trigeminal Nerve/ultrastructure
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