tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Special problems encountering surgical management of large retroperitoneal schwannomas"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Special problems encountering surgical management of large retroperitoneal schwannomas | World Journal of Surgical Oncology BioMed Central Open Access Special problems encountering surgical management of large retroperitoneal schwannomas Theodosios Theodosopoulos 1 Vaia K Stafyla1 Paraskevi Tsiantoula1 Anneza Yiallourou1 Athanasios Marinis1 Agathi Kondi-Pafitis2 Achilleas Chatziioannou3 Efstathios Boviatsis4 and Dionysios Voros1 Address 1Second Department of Surgery Areteion Hospital University of Athens Greece 2Department of Pathology Areteion Hospital University of Athens Greece 3Department of Radiology Areteion Hospital University of Athens Greece and 4Department of Neurosurgery Evangelismos General Hospital Athens Greece Email Theodosios Theodosopoulos - theodosios@ Vaia K Stafyla - vstafyla@ Paraskevi Tsiantoula - vivi_tsiantoula@ Anneza Yiallourou - annyiallo@ Athanasios Marinis - sakisdoc@ Agathi Kondi-Pafitis - akondi@ Achilleas Chatziioannou - achatzi@ Efstathios Boviatsis - eboviatsis@ Dionysios Voros - diovoros@ Corresponding author Published 3 October 2008 Received 16 April 2008 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6 107 doi 1477-7819-6-107 Accepted 3 October 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 107 2008 Theodosopoulos et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Retroperitoneal schwannomas are rare usually benign tumors that originate in the neural sheath and account for only a small percentage of retroperitoneal tumors. The aim of this clinical study is to present our experience in managing retroperitoneal schwannomas with a review of the current literature and to point out the surgical technical difficulties we faced due to the tumor s .