Schwannomas (or
neurilemmomas) are slow-growing mesenchymal
neoplasms of the
peripheral nerve sheath that may arise at almost any anatomical site.
Mesentery schwannoma is extremely rare, with less than ten previously described cases. We present the case of a 38-year-old
woman with arterial
hypertension and
chronic kidney disease with an abdominal painless mass of two years duration and an inconclusive pre-operative
clinical diagnosis; she was successfully treated by complete surgical resection of the mass. The aim of this
report is to recognize the possibility of
schwannomas in the
differential diagnosis of abdominal slowly growing
tumors (AU)