• Medicine · Mar 2020

    Case Reports

    Solitary fibrous tumor/hemangiopericytoma in the cerebellopontine angle mimicking vestibular schwannoma: A case report and literature review.

    • Xi Yue, Jie Huang, Yaqi Zhu, and Yong Du.
    • Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Sichuan Province, China.
    • Medicine (Baltimore). 2020 Mar 1; 99 (13): e19651.

    RationaleIntracranial solitary fibrous tumors (SFTs) and hemangiopericytomas (HPCs) are rare spindle cell tumors of mesenchymal origin that include benign and malignant neoplasms.Patient ConcernsWe present a 66-year-old male with a 5-year history of headache and dizziness, with left progressive sensorineural hearing loss over 1 month.DiagnosesWHO grade II SFT/HPC originating from the internal auditory canal in the left cerebellopontine angle.Interventionssurgical resection.OutcomesNo local recurrence or metastases were observed in the follow-up 3 months after the surgery.LessonsIntracranial SFTs/HPCs are rare mesenchymal neoplasms that are challenging to manage. If the imaging characteristics of tumor are not typical, clinicians should depend on tissue biopsy and immunohistochemistry to make a definitive diagnosis.

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