A benign, usually encapsulated slow growing tumor of the peripheral nervous system composed of Schwann cells. It recurs infrequently and only rare cases associated with malignant transformation have been reported. [ NCIT:P378 ]
Synonyms: peripheral nerve schwannoma
Term information
- DOID:956 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- UMLS:C1519001 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- NCIT:C41430 (NCIT:C41430)
- MEDGEN:274155 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
gard_rare, otar, rare
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C41430
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_956
http://identifiers.org/medgen/274155
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C1519001