S K Lee, K Park, D S Kong, Y S Cho, C H Baek, D H Nam, J I Lee, S C Hong, H J Shin, W Eoh, J H Kim
Seven patients with schwannomas of the jugular foramen were included our study in Samsung Medical Center between 1995 and 1999. Patients with neurofibromatosis were excluded. The records of the seven patients (six surgical case and one nonsurgical case) were retrospectively reviewed. There were six women and one man (mean age, 47 years) with a symptom duration ranging from 3 months to 14 years (mean, 47 months). The predominant symptoms were hearing difficulty, hemifacial spasm and hoarseness. Preoperative audiologic evaluation, computerised tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, and angiography were performed in most patients...
May 2001: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience: Official Journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia