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Granular cell tumour of the ulnar nerve
T Yasutomi1, H Koike, Y Nakatsuchi
1Department of Orthopaedics, Shiokawa Hospital, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. yasutomi@shiokawa.y-min.or.jp
Journal of Hand Surgery (Edinburgh, Scotland)
|April 6, 1999
Abstract:
Although granular cell tumours have been demonstrated to have a neural origin, they rarely arise in peripheral nerve trunks. We report a case of granular cell tumour of the ulnar nerve in a 51-year-old man. Though dissectable from the nerve, this intraneural tumour showed microscopic involvement of focal nerve fibres. This tumour tended to infiltrate the nerve in the same manner as a neurofibroma.