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Bilateral acoustic schwannoma: post-operative hearing in the contralateral ear
M L Farrell1, M L Harries, D M Baguley
1Department of Otolaryngology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|September 1, 1991
Abstract:
A patient with neurofibromatosis two (NF2) presented with bilateral acoustic neuroma. Pre-operative audiometry revealed a dead right ear and severe left-sided sensorineural hearing loss. Following surgical removal of the larger right acoustic neuroma we have documented a sensorineural improvement of 45 dB in the contralateral ear on pure tone audiometry, which as far as the authors are aware has not previously been described.