Educational Presentation: Spinal Cord Tumors in NF-1 and NF-2

Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 311 views

Here is a nice and concise overview of the most common spinal cord tumors found in patients with neurofibromatosis types 1 and 2.  Although we are all familiar with astrocytomas and ependymomas, we know less about intramedullary schwannomas.  I hope that this brief presentation will be helpful to all of you.

Intramedullary Lesions in NF1 and NF2 (NXPowerLite)

MCastillo

About Mauricio Castillo

I am Division Chief of Neuroradiology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. In addition, I am a Professor of Radiology and the current Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Neuroradiology. I trained in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Miami and was a Neuroradiology fellow at Emory University.
This entry was posted in Educational Presentations and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply