Article type: Letter to Editor
Article
title: Cerebellopontine
angle neurothekeoma (nerve sheath myxoma): an overview
Journal: International
Journal of Neurooncology
Year: 2019
Authors: Jamir Pitton Rissardo, Ana Letícia Fornari Caprara
E-mail: jamirrissardo@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Neurothekeomas are benign tumors of a likely nerve sheath origin. They were first characterized by Gallager and Helwig in 1980. In this context, other titles for this rare entity were already proposed such as “cutaneous lobular neuromyxoma,” “pacinian neurofibroma,” “perineurial myxoma,” and “plexiform myxoma.” Only a few cases of patients with cerebellopontine angle (CPA) neurothekeoma have been reported in the literature. To better evaluate this presentation, we performed a literature search, identified one case after a thorough review of the English-language published literature, and compared it with the Multani et al. report. The literature search was performed in Embase, Google Scholar, Lilacs, Medline, Scielo, and ScienceDirect, using a set of terms that included CPA, neurothekeomas, and nerve sheath myxoma.
Keywords: Cerebellopontine angle, neurothekeoma , nerve sheath
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DOI
10.4103/IJNO.IJNO_13_19
Citation
Rissardo JP, Fornari Caprara AL. Cerebellopontine angle neurothekeoma (nerve sheath myxoma): an overview. Int J Neurooncol 2019;2:137-8
