Imaging of facial nerve schwannomas: diagnostic pearls and potential pitfalls

Mundada, Pravin; Purohit, Bela; Kumar, Tahira Sultana; Tan, Tiong Yong

doi:10.5152/dir.2015.15060

Cited by 39 publications

(37 citation statements)

References 8 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The geniculate ganglion fossa is the most common location for facial nerve neurinoma [3,4]. They have reported that facial neurinoma originating in the geniculate ganglion fossa often shows extension to the tympanic and/or labyrinthine segments and that isolated involvement of the geniculate ganglion fossa at the time of the presentation is very rare.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cholesteatoma Mimicking Facial Neurinoma: A Case Report

Tabuchi¹,

Hirose²,

Hara³

2017

AOHNS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cholesteatoma Mimicking Facial Neurinoma: A Case Report

Tabuchi¹,

Hirose²,

Hara³

2017

AOHNS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…[ 16 ] Facial nerve schwannoma [ Figure 10 ] can involve any of these segments among which geniculate ganglion is the most common location. [ 17 ] Clinical presentation is via facial nerve paresis. Differential diagnoses include cerebellopontine angle meningioma, schwannoma of other lower cranial nerves, epidermoid and the perineural spread of metastases.…”

Section: Facial Nervementioning

confidence: 99%

Cranial nerve schwannoma – A pictorial essay

Geethapriya

Govindaraj

Raghavan

et al. 2020

Indian J Radiol Imaging

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Schwannomas are peripheral nerve sheath tumours arising from cranial, spinal or peripheral nerves. Most of the schwannomas are benign with the rare possibility of malignant transformation. Cranial nerve schwannomas can be seen along the course of any cranial nerve in the intracranial region or head and neck location. Although a majority are solitary sporadic lesions, multiple schwannomas can be seen in syndromes like neurofibromatosis type 2 and rarely in type 1. Since intracranial schwannomas are slow-growing, clinical presentation varies between no symptoms to cranial nerve palsy. Most of the times, the symptoms are due to mass effect over the adjacent structures, foraminal widening, compression of other cranial nerves, denervation injury or hydrocephalus. Familiarity with the course of the cranial nerves, imaging appearances and clinical presentation of schwannomas helps in accurate diagnosis and possible differential diagnosis, especially in uncommon clinical and radiological appearances. In this pictorial review, we illustrate relevant anatomy of cranial nerves, imaging features of schwannomas of most of the cranial nerves, clinical presentation and differential diagnosis.

show abstract

“…Tipik olarak multisegment tutulumu izlenir ve genikulat ganglion en sık tutulum yeridir [118,119]. Fasiyal sinir schwannomunda fasiyal sinir paralizisi, sensörinöral işitme kaybı ve iletim tipi işitme kaybı semptomları izlenebilir.…”

Section: Schwannomunclassified

Ekstraaksiyel Beyin Tumorleri

Cakir¹

2016

Trd Sem

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Imaging of facial nerve schwannomas: diagnostic pearls and potential pitfalls

Cited by 39 publications

References 8 publications

Cholesteatoma Mimicking Facial Neurinoma: A Case Report

Cholesteatoma Mimicking Facial Neurinoma: A Case Report

Cranial nerve schwannoma – A pictorial essay

Ekstraaksiyel Beyin Tumorleri

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About