Volume 2, Issue 3 (September 2013)                   J Emerg Health Care 2013, 2(3): 0-0 | Back to browse issues page

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LATE ONSET MALIGNANT PERIPHERAL NERVE SHEATH TUMOR IN A PATIENT WITH NEUROFIBROMATOSIS TYPE Ι AND LUNG METASTASIS
Mehrdad Taghipour * , Alireza Ahmadi , Mohammad Amin Fereydouni , Moghadaseh Shams , Niusha Nobari , Lotfollah Davoudi , Reza Maleki Gorji
Baghiatollah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors are one of the rare soft tissue sarcomas, which have not good prognosis despite of treatments. In this paper we tend to report a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor in the legs of a 44-year-old patient with neurofibromatosis type Ι. The patient underwent surgical operation and chemotherapy, but unfortunately died due to lung metastatic involvement several years later. Despite the poor prognosis of the disease, early diagnosis can reduce mortalityand morbidity
Keywords: Malignant, Neurofibromatosis, Peripheral nerve sheath tumor
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