Güzel Ebru, Er Uygur, Güzel Aslan, Toktaş Zafer, Yapıcıer Özlem
Radiology Clinics, Medical Park Gaziantep Hospital, Gaziantep, Turkey.
Neurosurgery Department, Medical School, Düzce University, Düzce, Turkey
Neuroradiol J. 2016 Jun;29(3):219-21. doi: 10.1177/1971400916638359. Epub 2016 Mar 11.
Melanotic neoplasm of the central nervous system is rare and the majority of them are metastatic. Melanotic schwannoma (MS) is an unusual variant of nerve sheath neoplasm accounting for less than 1% of primary nerve sheath tumors. A case involving a 36-year-old man with MS at the L5 root is presented. Surgery, differential diagnosis, radiology, histology, and treatment of this rare entity are discussed.
中枢神经系统黑色素性肿瘤较为罕见，其中大多数为转移性肿瘤。黑色素性神经鞘瘤（MS）是神经鞘瘤的一种不常见变体，在原发性神经鞘瘤中占比不到1%。本文报告了一例36岁男性L5神经根发生黑色素性神经鞘瘤的病例。并对这种罕见疾病的手术、鉴别诊断、放射学、组织学及治疗进行了讨论。
