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Saturday, 1 October 2016

CASE 397: NERVE TUMOR, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr NGUYỄN NGHIỆP VĂN, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.



Boy 17yo with pain at anterior brachial region both 2 sides. Clinical palpation revealed many small subcutaneous nodules, size as a pepper nut, painful at palpation ; and swelling neck (see chest XRays).




Ultrasound scanning of the antebrachial areas detected many small ellypsoid nodules along the arterial way looked like the nerve ( US 1, US 2: longitudinal scan and cross-section).



US 3, US 4 scan at the carotid detected hypoechoic mass along the carotid sites  which belong to vagus nerves 2 sites.



US 5, US 6 scan at left carotid= big size vagus nerve, hypoechoic #1.5 cm in diameter at cross section.



MRI of the neck and thorax= MRI 1, MRI 2: hypertrophic nodular vagus nervi go to  mediastinum.



MRI 3: lateral view of the neck; MRI 4 = cross section of vagus nerve at the neck in relation with carotid artery.



MRI 5: hypertrophic intercostal nerve at thorax.

Biopsy of  the subcutaneous nodule at forearm  reported  neurofibroma in microscopic result.



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