Raveendran Sreekanth, Kota Albert Abhinay, Stephen Edwin, Pallapati Samuel C R, Thomas Binu Prathap
Dr. Paul Brand Centre for Hand and Peripheral Nerve Surgery, Vellore, India.
Department of Vascular Surgery, Christian Medical College, Vellore, 632004, India.
J Med Case Rep. 2018 Nov 9;12(1):334. doi: 10.1186/s13256-018-1860-3.
Synovial cell sarcomas are usually seen in a juxta-articular location. However, they occur rarely in the head and neck region.
We report a rare case of brachial plexus synovial sarcoma in a 24-year old South Asian man treated successfully with surgical excision followed by radiotherapy.
Synovial sarcoma arising from the brachial plexus is rare. The treatment is multimodal with complete excision (often challenging owing to the proximity of the neurovascular structures) and adjuvant therapy.
滑膜肉瘤通常见于关节周围部位。然而,它们在头颈部区域很少发生。
我们报告一例罕见的臂丛神经滑膜肉瘤病例,患者为一名24岁的南亚男性,经手术切除并辅以放疗后成功治愈。
起源于臂丛神经的滑膜肉瘤很罕见。治疗方法为多模式,包括完整切除(由于神经血管结构临近,往往具有挑战性)及辅助治疗。