Case Report: Cutaneous melanocytic schwannoma with concomitant melanocytoma in a canine

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Schwannoma is a nerve sheath tumour arising from differentiated Schwann cells, and melanocytic schwannoma (MS) is a rare variant where the Schwan cells produce melanin pigment. MS is typically associated with spinal nerve roots and there have been only ~20 reports of cutaneous or subcutaneous MS to-date in humans. In canines, there have only been two reports of MS, both associated with spinal root nerves. In this...

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• Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6
• Comparative Genomic Hybridization
• GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gq-G11
• Lipoma
• Melanocytes
• Melanoma
• Meningeal Neoplasms
• Scalp

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Literature Corpus work

78ce4c07-bb62-55c6-9ec9-d5312ed5c21e

DOI

10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19694.2