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Journal Article
Advanced MRI manifestations of trigeminal ganglioneuroma: a case report and literature review
2016
Overview
Background
Ganglioneuroma is a rare benign tumor originating from the sympathetic nerves, and its origination from the trigeminal nerves is even rarer. Only 4 cases of ganglioneuroma originating from the trigeminal nerve have previously been reported, and these studies only reported conventional MRI manifestations. To our knowledge, the advanced MRI features of trigeminal ganglioneuroma have not been reported thus far.
Case presentation
This study reports a case of trigeminal ganglioneuroma in the left cerebellopontine angle. Advanced MRI showed the following tumor characteristics: significantly increased perfusion on perfusion imaging; isointense on diffusion-weighted imaging, whorled appearance within the tumor and no significant signs of damage to the white matter fiber tracts in the fractional anisotropy color map, and compare to the adjacent brain tissue, Choline didn’t show markedly elevation, and N-acetylaspartate peak showed slightly reduction on magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The tumor was completely resected, and the diagnosis of ganglioneuroma was confirmed by postoperative pathological examination.
Conclusion
This case demonstrates the conventional as well as advanced MRI manifestations of this rare extra-axial tumor, which have never been previously reported. In addition, we reviewed the literature to demonstrate the advanced MRI features of trigeminal ganglioneuroma, in order to aid preoperative diagnosis and differentiation.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd
Subject
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Cerebellar Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
/ Cerebellar Neoplasms - pathology
/ Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
/ Ganglioneuroma - diagnostic imaging
/ Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Oncology
/ Trigeminal Nerve - diagnostic imaging
/ Trigeminal Nerve - pathology
