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Ming Wang1, Hongguang Huang, Yongqing Zhou
1From the Department of Neurosurgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Zhejiang Province, PR China, 310003.
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.
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