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Ossified retroperitoneal malignant Schwannoma with spinal leptomeningeal metastases
K Mortelé1, M Lemmerling, L Defreyne
1Department of Radiology, University Hospital Gent, Belgium.
Neuroradiology
|March 11, 1998
Abstract:
A malignant retroperitoneal schwannoma in a patient without von Recklinghausen's disease is reported. Ossification in the tumour, shown on CT and MRI in this previously untreated patient is exceptional. MRI demonstration of spinal leptomeningeal metastases supports the hypothesis of haematogenous metastatic spread of systemic malignant tumours to the leptomeningeal spaces.