Pigmented schwannoma of the ventral spinal cord

Abstract

Pigmented schwannomas of the spinal canal are rare entities. We present a case of such in an unusual, ventral intradural, extramedullary location in a 27-year-old man. Imaging and histopathologic findings, including electron microscopy, showed an intradural, extramedullary pigmented schwannoma, densely adherent to the leptomeninges of the anterior median septum. This lesion is demonstrative of the neuroectodermal origin of these lesions and represents a rare location of these tumors.