title: Acoustic neuroma or vascular loop?
abstract: Five patients with signs and symptoms of acoustic neuroma had a filling defect on positive contrast posterior fossa myelography. At surgical exploration they were found to have a vascular loop accounting for the space occupying lesion.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001299:Audiometry; D002150:Caloric Tests; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009192:Myelography; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*