Table 1.
Patients’ demographics and tumor characteristics
| Demographics | |
| Age (years) | 49.4 ± 16.1 |
| Sex | |
| Females | 41 (48.2%) |
| Males | 44 (51.8%) |
| Tumor entities | |
| Schwannoma | 64/85 (75.3%) |
| Neurofibroma | 11/85 (12.9%) |
| Perineurioma | 5/85 (5.9%) |
| Hybrid nerve sheet tumor | 5/85 (5.9%) |
| Tumor location | |
| Upper limb/cervico-brachial plexus | 33/85 (38.8%) |
| Lower limb/lumbo-sacral plexus | 46/85 (54.1%) |
| Other location | 6/85 (7.1%) |
| Presenting symptom | |
| Pain only | 21/85 (24.7%) |
| Palpable mass and self-induced pain | 14/85 (16.5%) |
| Palpable mass only | 15/85 (17.6%) |
| Neurological deficits | 22/85 (25.9%) |
| By chance | 13/85 (15.3%) |
| Hoffmann Tinel’s sign | 50/85 (58%) |
| Symptom duration until surgery (months) | 22.9 ± 42.6 |