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Malignant Schwannoma: Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor

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Definition: Malignant tumor that rises from a peripheral nerve, from a preexisting benign nerve sheath tumor, in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1 or with features of Schwann cell differentiation.

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  1. Department of Anatomy and Pathological Histology, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Via del Barbiano 1/10, Bologna, 40136, Italy

    Marco Gambarotti MD

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  1. Muscoloskeletal Oncology, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Piero Picci

  2. Department of Surgery, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Marco Manfrini

  3. Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA

    Nicola Fabbri

  4. Department of Anatomy and Pathology, Istituto Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Marco Gambarotti

  5. Department of Anatomy and Pathology, Istituto Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Daniel Vanel

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Gambarotti, M. (2014). Malignant Schwannoma: Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor. In: Picci, P., Manfrini, M., Fabbri, N., Gambarotti, M., Vanel, D. (eds) Atlas of Musculoskeletal Tumors and Tumorlike Lesions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01748-8_72

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