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[Retroperitoneal benign schwannoma. Report of a new case]
E de Diego Rodríguez1, A Roca Edreira, B Martín García
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander.
Abstract:
The schwannoma is a tumor resulting from the Schwann cells of neural shwath, being its retroperitoneal localization quite unusual. This tumor is clinically unspecified and in most of the cases it originates symptoms coming from the compression of the close structures when its localization is retroperitoneal. Its diagnosis is quite often fortuitous being confirmed by anatomopathological study afterwards. The treatment is surgical radical exeresis with subsequent followup. We report a new case of this uncommon retroperitoneal pathology in a female patient showing a nonspecific clinic. Two years after the surgery she remains asymptomatic without any radiological evidence of recidive.