Natural history of peripheral nerve schwannomas.
Laila El SayedEmmanuel H MasmejeanBeatrice ParfaitMichel KalamaridesDavid BiauMatthieu PeyrePublished in: Acta neurochirurgica (2020)
This study confirms the slow-growing nature of most, but not all, peripheral nerve schwannomas. Additional studies are mandatory to explore the environmental factors influencing growth in sporadic cases and the precise growth patterns in schwannomatosis cases to detect the rare cases of malignant transformation and pave the way to the evaluation of future clinical trials.