Bilateral acoustic neurinomas. A case report.
A patient presented with complaint of increasing hearing loss in the right ear of five months duration. There was no hearing in the left ear as a result of previous surgery for resection of an acoustic neurinoma. Polytomes demonstrated a progressive erosion of the right auditory meatus. The patient underwent a right suboccipital craniotomy resulting in preservation hearing at a 30 dB level with 100% discrimination scores.
D000293:Adolescent; D001299:Audiometry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed