TITLE:
Schwannoma in Ascending Colon: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain
AUTHORS:
Ozdal Ersoy, Umit Sekmen, Suha Goksel, Hulya Hamzaoglu, Melih Paksoy
KEYWORDS:
Schwannoma, Colon, S-100
JOURNAL NAME:
Case Reports in Clinical Medicine,
Vol.3 No.5,
May
20,
2014
ABSTRACT: Schwannoma, (also
called neurilemoma, neurinoma) is a benign tumor originating from nerve sheath
of the Schwann cells. They rarely occur in gastrointestinal tract. We report a
rare case of colonic schwannoma in a 38-year-old woman presenting with
worsening right-sided pelvic pain, discovered
after laparoscopic right-colon resection performed after the detection of a
atypical polypoid mass in the ascending colon. Diagnosis is confirmed by
immunohistochemical staining panel.