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malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor.

Some of plexiform schwannoma are difficult to be differentiated from malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor [8].

This report describes a patient with a rare huge epithelioid malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST) in the left axilla.

Howeve, significant mitotic activity was not seen and the lesion was characterized as a benign peripheral nerve sheath tumor.

Patients with neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) develop multiple neurofibromas, with 8%to15%5% of patients experiencing malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST) during their lifetime.

This represents only the second reported case of a patient with Castleman's disease whose presentation mimicked that of a spinal nerve sheath tumor.

Based on these histological and immunohistochemical features, a diagnosis of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor with heterologous rhabdomyoblastic differentiation was made.

According to Laskin et al. [16] the myxoid type of neurothekeoma showed neurosustentacular differentiation (glial cell, Schwann cell and melanocyte) and is the bona fide nerve sheath tumor.

Based on these morphologic features and the anatomic location, a diagnosis of high-grade malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor was made.

These findings indicate that gastric schwannoma is a distinctive form of peripheral nerve sheath tumor that in many ways differs from soft tissue schwannoma.

In this case, clinical examination in association with MRI features was suggestive of a long standing peripheral nerve tumor with possible diagnosis of a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor vs degenerated schwannoma.