title: Malignant melanoma of the cerebello-pontine angle region.
abstract: A case of malignant melanoma in the cerebello-pontine angle region is presented in a 72 year old female patient, who had neurological examination and CT scan suggestive of acoustic neuroma. The surgical finding and the histological examination provided the diagnosis. As a primary focus was not found on clinical examination and although autopsy was not carried out, there is a possibility of the diagnosis being a primary malignant melanoma in CNS. This specific location for this kind of tumor was found to be rare when literature is looked up.
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgical Department, Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Braga
authors.forename: O I
authors.initials: OI
authors.lastname: Tella Júnior
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Jordy
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002530:Cerebellopontine Angle; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed