Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor CT

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

CT scan may be diagnostic of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor. Finding on CT scan suggestive of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor is a rapid growth mass with irrefular border.^[1]

CT

CT scan may be diagnostic of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor.^[2]
Imaging criteria are generally considered unreliable in differentiating from a more benign neurofibroma or schwannoma.^[3]
The larger the lesion, the more chance of it being malignant.
Findings on CT scan include: