title: Unilateral hearing loss due to a rhabdomyoma in a six-year-old child.
abstract: A case report of a six-year-old child is presented, who had had a unilateral sensorineural hearing loss for several years. Because of impairment in the ABR as well as in the caloric testing a MRI and CT scan were performed. A 17 mm tumour in the cerebellopontine angle (CPA) was detected, which after suboccipital surgery proved to be a rhabdomyoma. This tumour has not been described before in the CPA. Unilateral sensorineural hearing loss should, at all ages, be an indication for further (radiodiagnostic) investigations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: van Leeuwen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pruszczynski
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Marres
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Grotenhuis
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Cremers
mesh_terms: D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D002530:Cerebellopontine Angle; D002648:Child; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed