Transanal Minimally Invasive Surgery for Local Excision of a Rectal Schwannoma

Guevara-Martínez, Jenny; Toribio-Vázquez, Carlos; Noire, Fernando Prieto-La; Cantero, Ramón

doi:10.1097/dcr.0000000000002041

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“…Treatment is usually a complete surgical resection with free margins. Due to the low malignancy risk, extended resections are not indicated, neither chemotherapy nor adjuvant radiotherapy (2,4,5).…”

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Sigmoid colon Schwannoma simulating colon cancer

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Schwannomas are tumors of the peripheral nervous system that develop from Schwann cells. They uncommonly develop in the gastrointestinal tract (2-6 %), usually located in the stomach (83 %) and in the small and large intestines in 12 % of cases. Case reportAn 87-year-old female, without any personal background of interest, was studied due to epigastric pain and dyspepsia. A contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan reported an intraluminal neoplastic process in the sigmoid colon, approximately

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