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Extra-axial cavernomas of the cerebellopontine angle involving the seventh-eighth nerve complex
Etem Beskonakli1, Erkan Kaptanoglu, Ozerk Okutan
1Department of Neurosurgery, Numune Research and Education Hospital, Mertler sokak 41/6, Bestepe, 06510 Ankara, Turkey. ebeskonakli@hotmail.com
Neurosurgical Review
|August 13, 2002
Abstract:
Extra-axial cavernous malformations (cavernomas) of the central nervous system are rare. Although occasional cases located in different parts of the central nervous system have been reported, only five cases of extra-axial cavernous malformation in the cerebellopontine angle are to be found. We describe here two additional cases of cavernomas in the cerebellopontine angle causing hearing loss and tinnitus presenting as vestibular schwannoma.