Schwannoma of the urinary bladder: a case report

Pan Afr Med J. 2014 May 26:18:84. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2014.18.84.4586. eCollection 2014.

Abstract

Bladder schwannomas are exceedingly rare, benign or malignant, nerve sheath tumors that are most often discovered in patients with a known diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). A few sporadic case reports of bladder schwannoma have been published in urologic, obstetric/gynecologic, and pathologic journals. We report a case of an isolated schwannoma of the urinary bladder. To our knowledge, this represents only the sixth case of benign schwannoma of the urinary bladder in a patient without von Recklinghausen disease.

Keywords: Bladder mass; bladder schwannoma; neurofibromatosis; schwannoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Hematuria / etiology
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Neurilemmoma / pathology*
  • Neurilemmoma / surgery
  • Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / surgery