“…Twenty-three cases ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , Table 1) of spinal intramedullary melanocytomas have been reported in the literature since 1993; we add a further case description of this rare tumor entity. We would like to point out that Iida et al ( 4 ) reported two cases with spinal melanocytoma—one intradural extramedullary located and the other intramedullary manifested—and we review only the one case with the intramedullary tumor.…”