"There were a lot of questions buzzing around." Clark was diagnosed with facial nerve schwannoma, a slow-growing benign tumor. The first doctor she saw recommended immediate surgery to resect the ...

We report a case of 64-year-old male with hypertension, treated with amlodipine, who has been complaining of progressive right-sided hypoacusis for the past 4 months, associated with signs of ...

Acoustic neuroma, also called vestibular schwannoma, is a type of benign (noncancerous) tumor. It starts in the cells that wrap around the hearing and balance nerve that connects your ear to your ...

A primary clinical feature of NF2 is the development of schwannomas, tumors that grow along the nerve sheath. These tumors develop from Schwann cells, which support and protect nerve cells and serve ...

Should a newly diagnosed schwannoma of the vestibular nerve be observed, surgically removed, or irradiated? This question and others about this type of tumor, also known as acoustic neuroma ...

This noncancerous tumor (called a vestibular schwannoma or acoustic neuroma) typically occurs on one cochlear nerve. If the tumor develops bilaterally, it may be a sign of a genetic condition ...

Benign tumors are non cancerous tumours or cancers ... For the first time in the world, endoscopic transcanal excision of facial nerve schwannoma was performed on a 35-year-old patient at Apollo ...

On the basis of the appearance of sections of the mass stained with hematoxylin and eosin, we made a diagnosis of a spindle cell tumor (Fig ... nerves (Schwannoma and neurofibroma), adipose ...