Intracranial Schwannoma of the Spinal Accessory Nerve.
- Author:
Jeng Seok YUN
1
;
Sung Nam HWANG
;
Seung Won PARK
;
Young Baeg KIM
;
Duck Young CHOI
Author Information
1. Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Schwannoma;
Spinal accessory nerve;
Hearing disturbance;
Surgery
- MeSH:
Accessory Nerve*;
Adult;
Cerebellopontine Angle;
Gait;
Hearing;
Hearing Loss;
Humans;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging;
Neurilemmoma*;
Vertigo
- From:Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
1998;27(5):678-682
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A 28-year-old man presented with ataxic gait, left side hearing loss and vertigo, symptoms which had first appeared four months previously. MRI showed a 3X4cm mass in the left cerebellopontine angle. The tumor was totally removed via the suboccipital route; During removal, the distal part of the nerve root from which the tumor arose was stimulated and confirmed to be a spinal accessory nerve. Immediately after surgery, the patient's hearing returned and the other symptoms improved rapidly. Histologic examination showed that the tumor was a schwannoma.
