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Isolated schwannoma of the urinary bladder: a case report and review of the literature


Hamid Nasrollahi
Ali Ariafar
Faisal Ahmed
Maral Mokhtari
Ali Eslahi
Mansour Ansari
Umayir Chowdhury

Abstract

The urinary bladder schwannoma is an extremely rare primary urologic tumor. Schwannoma arises from the Schwann's cells in the nerve sheaths and is almost associated with von Recklinghausen's disease. We report a case of schwannoma in a 35-year old female who presented with urinary frequency for 2 months with absence of evidence of von Recklinghausen disease and successfully treated with transurethral resection of bladder lesion (TUR_B). To the best of our knowledge, this represents only the 10th case of benign schwannoma of the urinary bladder in a patient without von Recklinghausen disease. We report a case of an isolated schwannoma of the urinary bladder, and also searched the English literature as we had access to bladder schwannoma.


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