Fluid-fluid level in peripheral nerve schwannoma: report of a case with histological correlation.
Fluid-fluid level was observed in an unusual case of a 74-year-old man with peripheral nerve schwannoma of the lower extremity. To our knowledge, we found that schwannomas with imaging findings of fluid-fluid level had rarely been reported in the literature, and these tumors were all intracranial. Fluid-fluid level seen in peripheral nerve schwannoma has never been reported. In this case, MRI signal characteristics are those of blood and histological analysis of the fluid-fluid level suggests cystic degeneration with presence of intratumoral hemorrhage.
Department of Radiology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Wei-Chou
WC
Chang
Guo-Shu
GS
Huang
Herng-Sheng
HS
Lee
Chian-Her
CH
Lee
Yi-Chih
YC
Hsu
D000368:Aged; D001826:Body Fluids; D020420:Cyst Fluid; D006801:Humans; D035002:Lower Extremity / Q000294:innervation / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000473:pathology*; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013223:Statistics as Topic