RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Imaging and Clinical Features of an Intra-Axial Brain Stem Schwannoma
JF American Journal of Neuroradiology
JO Am. J. Neuroradiol.
FD American Society of Neuroradiology
SP 567
OP 569
DO 10.3174/ajnr.A1758
VO 31
IS 3
A1 Muzzafar, S.
A1 Ketonen, L.
A1 Weinberg, J.S.
A1 Schellingerhout, D.
YR 2010
UL http://www.ajnr.org/content/31/3/567.abstract
AB SUMMARY: 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.