Giant schwannomas of the sciatic nerve
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Alpesh Mistry; C. R. Chandrasekar; Najla Ben-Ghashir; Mohammed As-Sultany
- Source
- BMJ Case Reports. :bcr-2016
- Subject
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Neurology
Soft Tissue Neoplasms
Article
Specialist multidisciplinary team
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms
Humans
Medicine
Right Thigh
030222 orthopedics
business.industry
Soft tissue
Sarcoma
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Sciatic Nerve
Surgery
Thigh
Orthopedic surgery
Female
Sciatic nerve
business
Neurilemmoma
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Rare disease
- Language
- ISSN
- 1757-790X
We report a very rare case of giant schwannomas of the sciatic nerve in a 39-year-old woman who presented with increasing swelling and discomfort in the posterior aspect of her right thigh. We demonstrate that even with such large tumours, surgical excision could be successfully carried out to resolve all symptoms while causing no permanent nerve damage. It remains paramount that large soft tissue tumours get referred to a sarcoma centre and be managed by a specialist multidisciplinary team.