Surgical results in unusual cerebellopontine angle tumours.
Vestibular schwannomas account for 84% of cerebellopontine angle (CPA) lesions. The remaining CPA tumours comprise a fascinating group of lesions which may present in a similar fashion. Fortunately, advances in neuroradiology have increased our diagnostic accuracy of these lesions. This paper describes the surgical results of a series of 69 CPA lesions which were not vestibular schwannomas. The majority of these unusual CPA tumours were meningiomas, cholesteatomas and neuromas of other cranial nerves in the posterior fossa.
Grey
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Department of Otoneurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
Moffat
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Hardy
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002530:Cerebellopontine Angle / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002781:Cholesteatoma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D003390:Cranial Nerve Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005154:Facial Nerve / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005925:Glomus Jugulare Tumor / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008579:Meningioma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009463:Neuroma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000209:etiology