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Malignant triton tumour of the spine: a case report
I W Crandon1, G Char, C Reynolds
1Department of Surgery, U.W.I., Jamaica.
The West Indian Medical Journal
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
A malignant triton tumour is a malignant schwannoma with rhabdomyoblastic differentiation, and is a very rare occurrence. We describe the case of a 33-year-old man with neurofibromatosis type 1 who presented with paraplegia. Pathological examination of an intradural, extramedullary tumour excised at lumbar laminectomy demonstrated a malignant schwannoma with rhabdomyoblastic differentiation. We believe this is the first documented case of a malignant triton tumour of the spine.