Parathyroid Adenoma, Gastric Adenocarcinoma, and Intraabdominal Schwannoma in One Patient

ABSTRACT

Intraabdominal schwannomas, which occur quite rarely, are usually benign tumors. They are often discovered coincidentally when abdominal scans are performed for other reasons. We also coincidentally detected an intraabdominal schwannoma in addition to primary hyperparathyroidism related to a parathyroid adenoma and a gastric adenoma which caused partial pyloric obstruction in a 69-year-old female patient who was admitted to our emergency room with vomiting while we were further investigating hypercalcemia that was found during laboratory workup. It is rare to diagnose multiple tumors concurrently in a single patient which are components of certain neuroendocrine syndromes themselves. It is more interesting to see a rare tumor such as intraabdominal schwannoma coexisting with a parathyroid adenoma that can be a component of multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes. In the literature, there are few case reports of the coexistence of intraabdominal schwannomas with adenocarcinoma of the gastrointestinal tract. Here, we present an unusual case of intraabdominal schwannoma coexisting with parathyroid adenoma and gastic adenocarcinoma, all diagnosed in a single patient. To our best knowledge, this is the first case report of such a rare coexistence which makes it rather interesting.