SCHWANNOMA OF THE TIP OF THE NOSE - MRI

We report a schwannoma with a rare location at the tip of the nose in a 20-year-old woman with an otherwise unremarkable medical history. Th e imaging findings unterline the usefulness of MRI in narrowing down t he differential diagnosis of masses in this region. Once the diagnosis was focussed on a neural origin of the mass, the exact nature of the tumour could not be predicted from the MRI, although the presence of a capsule on imaging studies as well as at operation suggested it was p robably a schwannoma. A schwannoma must be considered when one encount ers a sharply delineated mass at the tip of the nose, showing high sig nal on T2-weighted images and strongly contrast enhancement.