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Schwannomas are the most common type of spinal tumor, and they most commonly occur in intradural extramedullary locations. Intramedullary schwannomas of the central nervous system are very rare and are difficult to diagnose using preoperative imaging. Here, we report a rare, tiny cervical intramedullary schwannoma and review the literature regarding the clinical presentation, magnetic resonance imaging, pathology, and surgical experience associated with this rare tumor type.


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Surgical resection of a cervical intramedullary schwannoma: A case report and literature review

Show Author's information Peihai Zhang1Zhenxing Sun1Dan Yuan2Yaxing Sun3Zhanquan Zhang4James Wang1Yi Guo1Guoqin Wang1Dongkang Liu1Peng Chen1Linkai Jing1Feng Yang1Huifang Zhang1Wei Shi1Guihuai Wang1( )
Department of Neurosurgery, Changgung Hospital, Medical Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing 102218, China
Department of Nephrology, Beijing Luhe Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 101149, China
Department of Psychiatry, Zaozhuang Mental Health Center, Zaozhuang 277103, China
Department of Neurosurgery, The Fifth People’s Hospital of Datong, Regional Medical Center of Shanxi Province, Datong 037006, China

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Schwannomas are the most common type of spinal tumor, and they most commonly occur in intradural extramedullary locations. Intramedullary schwannomas of the central nervous system are very rare and are difficult to diagnose using preoperative imaging. Here, we report a rare, tiny cervical intramedullary schwannoma and review the literature regarding the clinical presentation, magnetic resonance imaging, pathology, and surgical experience associated with this rare tumor type.

Keywords: magnetic resonance imaging, spinal cord, literature review, intramedullary schwannoma

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Received: 27 June 2017
Revised: 25 July 2017
Accepted: 30 July 2017
Published: 01 September 2017
Issue date: September 2017

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This project was supported by the Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital Fund (No. 12015C1044). The authors thank Zhenxing Sun and Huifang Zhang for collecting the archived data and Guihuai Wang and Jin Wang for technical assistance.

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