neurofibroma in English

noun
1
a tumor formed on a nerve cell sheath, frequently symptomless but occasionally malignant.
The intracranial tumors associated with neurofibromatosis include optic gliomas, other astrocytomas, neurilemomas, acoustic neuromas, neurofibromas , and meningiomas.

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1. Tissue, Cytoplasmic Protein, Human Tumor, Neurofibroma.

2. 13 Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST) was a spindle cell sarcoma, which could arise from nerve tissue, neurofibroma or showing nerve sheath differentiation.

3. A neurofibroma of this size is extremely rare, and it would not have been overlooked at the time of the first operation had the procedure standard in achalasia, i. e. transthoracic myotomy, been followed.

4. Tumours of the acoustic nerve occurring for the first time (neurinoma and neurofibroma) to a considerable extent — 85% according to Lindgren — show a dilatation of the porus and of the meatus acusticus int. of the side affected.