[Considerations about a case of a large neuroma of the acoustic nerve (author's transl)].
The authors, referring to a personal case of a giant acoustic neuroma, stress how the diagnosis of neuroma of the VIII nerve is late discovery. Actually traditional radiological methods and CT would allow the diagnosis of acoustic neuroma in a very early stage with easier possibilities of surgical treatment and less neurological collateral effects.
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Considerazioni su un caso di neurinoma gigante dell'acustico.