Haemorrhagic acoustic neuroma with features of a vascular malformation. A case report.

Neuroradiology

Department of Pathology, Hôpital Henri Mondor, 51 Avenue du Maréchal De Lattre De Tassigny, F-94010 Créteil, France.

Published: October 1999

A 55-year-old man with hearing loss presented with vertigo and vomiting. CT tomography and MRI demonstrated a cerebellopontine angle mass with foci of haemorrhage. An angiomatous tumour, with large abnormal veins adhering to the capsule, was completely removed. Histologically, the tumour was an acoustic neuroma with abnormal vascularisation and limited intratumoral haemorrhage.

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