PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Shimizu, Ken
AU  - Iwai, Hiroshi
AU  - Ikeda, Koshi
AU  - Sakaida, Noriko
AU  - Sawada, Satoshi
TI  - Intraparotid Facial Nerve Schwannoma: A Report of Five Cases and an Analysis of MR Imaging Results
DP  - 2005 Jun 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 1328--1330
VI  - 26
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/26/6/1328.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/26/6/1328.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2005 Jun 01; 26
AB  - Summary: We present five cases of intraparotid facial nerve schwannoma. In four of the five cases, tumors arising from the main facial nerve trunk were centered just below the skull base near the stylomastoid foramen and had a small cranial extension into the lower facial nerve canal. In three cases, each tumor had higher signal intensity around the periphery on T2-weighted images (target sign). These findings may be highly suggestive of an intraparotid facial nerve schwannoma.