Open AccessCystic spinal schwannomas: A short series of six cases. Can we predict them preoperatively?
Author(s) -
Amey Savardekar,
Navneet Singla,
Sandeep Mohindra,
Chirag Kamal Ahuja,
Sunil Gupta
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
surgical neurology international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-5097
pISSN - 2152-7806
DOI - 10.4103/2152-7806.139666
Subject(s) - medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , histopathology , schwannoma , radiology , differential diagnosis , nerve sheath tumor , surgery , pathology
Spinal schwannomas are benign tumors arising from the spinal nerve root sheaths and are the commonest intradural extramedullary spinal tumors. Though cystic changes in schwannomas are well described, predominantly cystic schwannomas are uncommon lesions and form a different spectrum of conditions as compared with the commonly seen intradural extramedullary solid lesions.