Tibial nerve schwannoma: a case report.

Authors

  • Vuk Aleksić
  • Radmila Aleksić Department of head and neck surgery, Clinical hospital Center Zemun
  • Aleksandar Lazić Department of surgery, Clinical hospital Center Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Aleksandar Oroz Department of head and neck surgery, Clinical hospital Center Zemun
  • Nenad Miladinović Department of pathology, Clinical hospital Center Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Nebojša Miladinović Department of orthopedics and traumatology

Abstract

Schwannoma represents a benign, slow growing, well-defined, solitary nerve sheath tumor that frequently occurs in the region of the head, neck and spine.

We present a case of a 35-year women who had pain in the right leg for 10 years, and after multiple failed treatment attempts, she was finally diagnosed and afterwards operated for tibial nerve schwannoma of the right leg in the middle portion of the shin. This rare localization and the absence of a palpable mass led to a long-term delay in accurate diagnosis.

This case illustrates that a properly taken medical history and a profound clinical examination cannot be replaced by any other diagnostic test, and apart from fallowing standard guidelines for clinical practice, personalized medical approach is still conditio sine qua non.

 

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2025-01-17

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Aleksić, V., Aleksić, R. ., Lazić, A. ., Oroz, A., Miladinović, N., & Miladinović, N. (2025). Tibial nerve schwannoma: a case report . Neurohirurgija - The Serbian Journal of Neurosurgery, 4(1). Retrieved from https://neurohirurgija.com/neurohirurgija/article/view/54

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2024): Volume 4: Issue 1

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