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J Neurol Surg Rep 2015; 76(01): e32-e36
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1395493
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

An Intraventricular Schwannoma with Associated Hydrocephalus and Ventricular Entrapment: A Case Report

Sheilah M. Curran-Melendez
1   Department of Radiology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
,
Melanie Fukui
1   Department of Radiology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
,
William Bivin
2   Department of Pathology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
,
David Oliver-Smith
3   Department of Neurosurgery, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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23 June 2013

06 August 2014

Publication Date:
16 January 2015 (online)

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Abstract

Intraventricular schwannomas are rare primary brain tumors, with fewer than 25 cases reported in the literature. Here, we present the case of a 20-year-old male patient with a 2 year history of blurry vision and dysesthesia involving his right occiput and upper neck. Imaging demonstrated a homogeneously enhancing mass located within the atrium of the right lateral ventricle with associated right lateral ventricular entrapment. Pathology confirmed the tumor to be an intraventricular schwannoma. Imaging findings, presentation, complications, and treatment options for intraventricular schwannomas are described.

Keywords

ventricles - brain - schwannoma - hydrocephalus
 

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