Cystic lumbar nerve sheath tumours: MRI features in five patients
Hemant Parmar
Department of Radiology, King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and
Search for more papers by this authorDeepak Patkar
Department of Radiology, Balabhai Nanavati Hospital and Research Centers, Mumbai, India
Search for more papers by this authorSameer Gadani
Department of Radiology, Balabhai Nanavati Hospital and Research Centers, Mumbai, India
Search for more papers by this authorJeshil Shah
Department of Radiology, Balabhai Nanavati Hospital and Research Centers, Mumbai, India
Search for more papers by this authorHemant Parmar
Department of Radiology, King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and
Search for more papers by this authorDeepak Patkar
Department of Radiology, Balabhai Nanavati Hospital and Research Centers, Mumbai, India
Search for more papers by this authorSameer Gadani
Department of Radiology, Balabhai Nanavati Hospital and Research Centers, Mumbai, India
Search for more papers by this authorJeshil Shah
Department of Radiology, Balabhai Nanavati Hospital and Research Centers, Mumbai, India
Search for more papers by this authorH Parmar MB BS; D Patkar MD; S Gadani MD; J Shah MD.
SUMMARY
Intraspinal cystic lumbar nerve sheath tumours constitute an uncommon subset of tumours with distinct clinico-biological behaviour. The MRI findings in five such cases are presented. Four of these were cystic schwannomas and one was a cystic neurofibroma. The pathology, MRI findings and the differential diagnosis of these rare tumours are analysed.
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