Calcified cerebellopontine angle hematoma mimicking recurrent acoustic neurinoma.
The authors describe a case of calcified, organized hematoma in the cerebellopontine angle which developed 20 years after subtotal removal of an acoustic neurinoma, presenting as a recurrence of acoustic neurinoma on computed tomography. It points out the difficulty in differentiating a recurrent tumor from an organized hematoma in this particular case because of neuroradiological similarity and masked clinical symptoms by the long-standing neurological deficits after the original surgery. MRI scanning would have been helpful in this circumstances.
Ito
M
M
Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Tajima
A
A
Sato
K
K
Ishii
S
S
D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D002530:Cerebellopontine Angle / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006406:Hematoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed