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.
Farrell
M L
ML
Department of Otolaryngology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
Harries
M L
ML
Baguley
D M
DM
Moffat
D A
DA
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