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Meryem Himmiche1, Youssef Joulali1, Imane Staouni Benabdallah1, Mohammed Benzagmout1, Khalid Chakour1, Mohammed Faiz Chaoui1.
Abstract
Spinal schwannomas are benign tumors accounting for 30% of all spinal tumors. They originate from the shwann cells of the spinal roots. We report our experience in managing patients with spinal shwannomas, from diagnosis to treatment modalities, in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Hassan II in Fez over a period of 13 years. The patients with spinal shwannomas accounted for 19.5% of those with spinal cord compression treated surgically over the same period. The average age of patients was 45 years, with a discreet female predominance. Spinal schwannomas had an insidious onset, then the median of consultation time was 18 months. The main symptoms were spinal and radicular pain. Half of our patients had neurological deficits. Medullary MRI was performed in all of our patients. Spinal schwannomas occurred predominantly in the chest (40%); 62% of shwannomas were intradural lesions, rarely extradural lesions (8%) and mixed lesions(4%). Complete Surgical resection was performed in 96% of cases with osteosynthesis in two cases and arthrodesis in a single case. Histological examination confirmed the diagnosis of benign neurinoma in 23 cases, malignant shwannoma in one case and neurofibroma in one case. Outcome was favorable in the majority of cases, two patients had complications, an infection of the wall and neurological worsening. The interest in the subject of our study is to highlight the features of these lesions and to compare the results of our case series with the data in the literature. © Meryem Himmiche et al.Entities:
Keywords: Spinal shwannoma; medullary MRI; surgery
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Year: 2019 PMID: 31692754 PMCID: PMC6814336 DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2019.33.199.17921
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pan Afr Med J
Figure 1IRM médullaire, séquence T1 avec gadolinium, en coupe coronale (A) et axiale (B) montrant une tumeur en sablier bien limitée, de siège extra dural, de signal hétérogène, siégeant en regard de D7-D8 du côté droit et refoulant la moelle à gauche
Figure 2Aspect histologique d'un shwannome bénin (A: HES*50, B: HES*200): prolifération fusocellulaire disposée en nappes; les cellules tumorales sont dotées de noyaux monomorphes allongés avec cytoplasme éosinophile mal limité. Un shwannome malin (C: HES*200): prolifération de cellules atypiques munies des noyaux hyperchromatiques, anisocaryotiques avec des contours irréguliers (flèche)