title: Abducens nerve schwannoma in cerebellopontine angle mimicking acoustic neuroma.
abstract: The abducens nerve schwannoma is one kind of rare intracranial tumor. We report an interesting case of abducens nerve schwannoma in the right cerebellopontine angle in a 68-year-old male patient presenting only vertigo and headache, without any symptom of abducens nerve palsy. This is the oldest patient with abducens nerve schwannoma to date. The patient received a craniectomy via suboccipital retrosigmoid approach and had total surgical excision.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Neurosurgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Zhejiang Province, PR China, 310003.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hongguang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Yongqing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D020434:Abducens Nerve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D002530:Cerebellopontine Angle / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003399:Craniotomy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014717:Vertigo / Q000209:etiology