Highlights
- •The first documented case of an appendiceal ganglioneuroma in a patient with NF2
- •The only case demonstrating the MR characteristics of appendiceal ganglioneuromas
- •Suspicion for the diagnosis should be high in patients with neurofibromatosis.
- •Treatment of an appendiceal ganglioneuroma is with surgical resection.
- •The diagnosis of an appendiceal ganglioneuroma is a pathologic one.
Abstract
Here we report the case of a 30-year-old woman with a history of neurofibromatosis
type 2 (NF2) who presented with an incidentally discovered pelvic mass on an ultrasound.
The identity of the mass remained indeterminate following a CT and MRI, although appendiceal
pathology was suspected. An elective laparoscopy and appendectomy were performed without
complication and pathology on the specimen demonstrated an appendiceal ganglioneuroma.
To our knowledge, there has been no prior documented case of an appendiceal ganglioneuroma
in a patient with NF2. Furthermore, the current case is the first to report the MR
characteristics of appendiceal ganglioneuromas.
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Publication history
Published online: May 27, 2017
Accepted:
May 26,
2017
Received:
February 21,
2017
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