Bilateral acoustic schwannoma: post-operative hearing in the contralateral ear.
A patient with neurofibromatosis two (NF2) presented with bilateral acoustic neuroma. Pre-operative audiometry revealed a dead right ear and severe left-sided sensorineural hearing loss. Following surgical removal of the larger right acoustic neuroma we have documented a sensorineural improvement of 45 dB in the contralateral ear on pure tone audiometry, which as far as the authors are aware has not previously been described.
Department of Otolaryngology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
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ML
Farrell
M L
ML
Harries
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DM
Baguley
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Moffat
D000328:Adult; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012886:Skull / Q000473:pathology