Useful mnemonics to remember the differential diagnoses for intradural extramedullary spinal neoplasms include the following:
- No More Spinal Masses
- MNM
Mnemonics
No More Spinal Masses
- N: neurofibroma
- M: meningioma
- S: schwannoma
- M: metastasis
MnM
This simplified mnemonic, as in M&M candy, places the primary neoplasms in order of frequency, followed by secondary neoplasms.
- M: meningioma
- N: nerve sheath tumor
- M: metastasis