Intracranial schwannoma in a child

✍ Scribed by M. Sidney Anderson; Billie R. Bentinck

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 434 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(197201)29:1<231::aid-cncr2820290135>3.0.co;2-d

✦ Synopsis

A 13-year-old child presented with clinical signs and symptoms, developing over a year, of a large posterior fossa tumor. In addition to obliteration of the right cerebellopontine angle, the mass distorted the fourth ventricle and bulged into its right lateral recess. Pathologic examination by light and electron microscopy demonstrated a schwannoma. This represents the eighth reported case of a solitary intracranial schwannoma of the acoustic nerve in a child.

LTHOUGH SCHWANNOMAS COMPRISE ABOUT

A %lo% of all primary intracranial tumors, their origin along the course of intracranial nerves is exceedingly rare in children. In several large series of intracranial tumors in children, none has been observed and their appearance in the medical literature generally is limited to isolated case reports. We report here a massive schwannoma originating on the right eighth nerve in a 13-year-old child.