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[Spinal meningeal melanocytoma simulating neurinoma: case report]
J Gonçalves1, P Díaz, I Subhi-Issa
1Servicio de Neurocirugía, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca.
Neurocirugia (Asturias, Spain)
|November 22, 2002
Abstract:
Meningeal melanocytomas are infrequent tumors that when located in the spinal cord and because of their close relationship to the nerve root can resemble a neurinoma. The MRl can help to differentiate them from the neurinomas preoperatively. The case of a female patient harboring a cervical meningeal melanocytoma involving the C7 nerve root, and diagnosed preoperatively as an hourglass neurinoma is presented.