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ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2018

Frontal lobe intracerebral schwannoma mimicking metastatic lesion in a patient with papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Sima Sayyahmelli, Hakan Kina, Melih Ucer, M Shahriar Salamat, Mustafa K Baskaya

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Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Sima SayyahmelliDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.
Hakan KinaDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.
Melih UcerDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.
M Shahriar SalamatDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.
Mustafa K BaskayaDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intracerebral schwannomas are quite rare. Due to their rarity and lack of pathognomonic imaging features, intracerebral schwannoma may be overlooked in the initial differential diagnosis of an intra-axial mass with heterogeneous ring enhancement, such as a high-grade glioma, metastasis or lymphoma. Here, we present a 21-year-old woman with prior diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma and recent history of seizures who had a heterogeneously ring-enhancing left frontal lobe mass. Our presumptive diagnosis was a metastatic tumor since she had a history of thyroid cancer. Because of uncertainty in preoperative differential diagnosis, the decision was made to proceed with excisional biopsy of the tumor via craniotomy. She underwent uneventful gross total resection of the tumor that histopathology revealed as an intracerebral schwannoma.

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