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cutaneous nervous tumors

Cutaneous neuroectodermal tumors

Definition: Cutaneous tumors of neural differenciation

Classification

- Reactive lesions
? Traumatic neuroma
? Digital pacinian reuroma
? Morton?s neuroma (metatarsalgia)

- Hamartomas
Mucosal neuroma
? Other hamartomas and choristomas

- Benign neoplams
? Solitary circumsribed neuroma - Palisaded encapsulated neuroma
? Neurilemmoma - Schwannoma
? Neurofibroma
? Granular celle tumor
? Gingival granular cell tumor of the newborn (Congenital epulis)
? Primitive polypoid granular cell tumor
? Neurothekoma - Dermal nerve sheath myxoma
? Cellular neurothekoma
? Perineurioma - Storiform perineural fibroma

- Heterotopias
? Meningeal heterotopia
? Glial heterotopia

- Maligant tumors
? Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor
? Von Recklinghausen?s neurofibromatosis
? pPNET
? Malignant melanoma of soft tissues - Clear cell sarcoma