Clinical Significance of Pain in Differential Diagnosis betweenSpinal Meningioma and Schwannoma

While common MRI characteristics for schwannomas exist, diagnosis by imaging alone remains challenging. Detailed analysis ofsymptoms reported by the patient is very important in the differential diagnosis between meningioma and schwannoma in caseswhere MRI images are not sufficient for determining the tumor type. The pain, its classification of the character, and the timingseem to be an important predictive symptom in the differential diagnosis of spinal schwannoma.