Traumatic neuroma in a breast cancer patient after modified radical mastectomy: A case report.
A reactive proliferation rather than a true neoplasm,
traumatic neuroma can arise secondary to trauma to a nerve bundle.
Histologic examination revealed that the mass was made up of two separate and adjacent lesions: (1) a
traumatic neuroma that was characterized by distorted neural structures embedded in fibrous tissue and (2) an arteriovenous aneurysm that featured a predominance of arteriole-like vessels (figure 1).
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Traumatic neuroma following sagittal split osteotomy of the mandible," International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, vol.
Bilateral
traumatic neuroma of the anterior cervical nerve root: case report.
Traumatic neuroma in wall of recurrent unicystic ameloblastoma: A case report.
We believe that the tumor described in this report and those labeled granular cell
traumatic neuroma by Rosso et al are really the same lesion, with the difference that in this patient the persistent tissular injury in the vicinity of lithiasis played the role of a causal, causative, or promoting factor for the development of the tumor, in a similar way, for example, that Morton neuroma is a mechanically induced lesion that affects women who frequently wear shoes that are not designed for the physiology of the foot.
Traumatic neuromas in the beak stump after trimming have been implicated as a cause of chronic pain in commercial hens (Breward and Gentle, 1985; Gentle, 1986b; Lunam et al., 1996).