Primary melanocytic tumor of the cerebellopontine angle mimicking a vestibular schwannoma: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Piedra, Mark P ^a   Scheithauer, Bernd W ^a   Driscoll, Colin L W ^a   Link, Michael J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Melanoma; Melanoma mimicking vestibular schwannoma; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BLOOD VESSEL; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CRANIAL NERVE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INNER EAR; MALE; MELANOMA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR TUMOR; VESTIBULE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745764848     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000219236.48886.44     Document Type: Article

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