Imaging and clinical features of an intra-axial brain stem schwannoma.
A 68-year-old man presented with a highly symptomatic brain stem tumor originally thought to be a brain stem glioma. Intraoperative MR imaging guidance was used to resect the tumor, and real-time evoked potentials improved during surgery. Pathology findings unexpectedly indicated that the tumor was an intra-axial brain stem schwannoma, a condition reported, to our knowledge, only 6 times previously in the literature. The patient made an excellent recovery with reversal of his symptoms.
Muzzafar
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Neuroradiology Section, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
Ketonen
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Weinberg
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Schellingerhout
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D000368:Aged; D020295:Brain Stem Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003399:Craniotomy; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome