Intracranial neuromuscularchoristoma: a case report and literature review.
Neuromuscular choristoma (NMC) is an uncommon tumor that usually involves a large nerve trunk. Only 28 cases of NMC have been previously reported in the English-language literature, 17 of which involved cranial nerves. We report a new case of intracranial NMC that arose from a facial nerve at the cerebellopontine angle in a 44-year-old man. The patient was taken to surgery, where the lesion was found to involve the right facial nerve. The tumor was partially removed, and at the 2-year follow-up, the patient showed no sign of recurrence.
Department of Pathology, Albany (NY) Medical Center, USA.
Geraldine
G
Owor
Jiang
J
Qian
Troy
T
Payner
Anita
A
Martin
Yuan
Y
Shan
D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002828:Choristoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005154:Facial Nerve / Q000601:surgery*; D005155:Facial Nerve Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006261:Headache; D034381:Hearing Loss; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007766:Lacrimal Apparatus Diseases; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal; D014012:Tinnitus; D016896:Treatment Outcome