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AN AUTOPSY CASE OF MALIGNANT SCHWANNOMA IN THE BRACHIAL PLEXUS EXTENDING INTO THE SPINAL CANAL Sizuka Kurita 1 , Yasuto Itoyama 1 , Hitoshi Nagara 2 , Hiroyuki Nakagaki 3 , Akira Hodozuka 1 , Toru Iwaki 2 , Kanehiro Hasuo 4 , Yoshigoro Kuroiwa 1 1Departments of Neurology Neuropathology, Kyushu University 2Departments of Neurology Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, Kyushu University 3Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University 4Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University pp.943-948
Published Date 1986/10/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1406205786
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A 46-year-old woman had pain and numbness in the left upper extremity, on Dec. 1982. These symptoms progressed gradually. She was admit-ted to our department on Jan. 26, 1984 because of neck pains and progressive paraplegia. Neuro-logical examination revealed monoplegia of the left arm with absent DTRs, spastic paraplegia, sensory disturbances below Th 11 level and severe sphincter disturbance. A metrizamide myelogram showed intradural extramedullary mass at C 4-7. Laminectomy was immediately performed from C 3 to C 7. A soft and brown tumor was attached at the ventral aspect of the cord at C 3 to C 7 and it was firmly attached at the root sleeve of the C 5 level The histological diagnosis of the tumor was malignant schwannoma. One month later, she was discharged on foot. However, she was re-admitted to our department because of intractable pains in left neck and arm in Aug. '84. The second operation was done on Sep. 15. A soft and brown mass was found intra- and ex-tradurally and it invaded into paravertebral mus-cules. On Sep. 30 '84 she died from respiratory failure.

Postmortem examination revealed that intra-extradural tumor was found at C 4-Th 3, and the left brachial plexus was swollen. In the brachial plexus, the nerve fiber was replaced with tumor in the perineurium. The tumor invaded to the vertebral body and the paravertebral muscles,There were numerous metastasis of the tumor inthe both lungs. The tumor was formed byvariable and scanty cytoplasm with many mitotic丘gures.

The malignant schwannoma in the brachial ple-xus was less common compared with in the extre.mities and trunk. It was extremely rare that themalignant schwannoma formed an intradural ex・tramedullary spinal cord tumor. In the presentedcase, clinical and pathological findings suggestedthat the tumor arose in the brachial plexus andextended into the spinal canal along the nerveroots.


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