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An Educational Intervention Using the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Depression Guidelines among Internal Medicine Residents
Adult peripheral neuroblastoma
Report of clinical features, diagnostic and surgical aspects observed in a case of adult peripheral neuroblastoma infiltrative of the lumbosacral plexuses. The patient, a 39-year-old male, presented with sciatalgia and progressive crural monoplegia. Characteristic histological features of this rare tumor are described. Surgical resection was attempted via a posterior transgluteal approach to the retroperitoneum through the greater sciatic foramen