Sudden contralateral deafness following cerebellopontine angle tumor surgery.
Sudden hearing loss in the contralateral ear is a rare but catastrophic complication of acoustic tumor surgery. The seventh case in the literature is reported. Hearing can return, but this is less likely when the tumor was large or a suboccipital approach was used. A short course of corticosteroids, carbogen, and histamine cannot be shown to be effective but is probably worthy of consideration. Cochlear implantation may have a role if irreversible hearing loss persists 18 months after surgery.
Walsh
R M
RM
Department of ENT, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, England.
Murty
G E
GE
Punt
J A
JA
O'Donoghue
G M
GM
D000328:Adult; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D002530:Cerebellopontine Angle / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003638:Deafness / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed