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Vestibular schwannoma with contralateral facial pain – case report

BACKGROUND: Vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma) most commonly presents with ipsilateral disturbances of acoustic, vestibular, trigeminal and facial nerves. Presentation of vestibular schwannoma with contralateral facial pain is quite uncommon. CASE PRESENTATION: Among 156 cases of operated vest...

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Autores principales: Eftekhar, Behzad, Gheini, Mohammadreza, Ghodsi, Mohammad, Ketabchi, Ebrahim
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC153508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12659656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-3-2
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author Eftekhar, Behzad
Gheini, Mohammadreza
Ghodsi, Mohammad
Ketabchi, Ebrahim
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description BACKGROUND: Vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma) most commonly presents with ipsilateral disturbances of acoustic, vestibular, trigeminal and facial nerves. Presentation of vestibular schwannoma with contralateral facial pain is quite uncommon. CASE PRESENTATION: Among 156 cases of operated vestibular schwannoma, we found one case with unusual presentation of contralateral hemifacial pain. CONCLUSION: The presentation of contralateral facial pain in the vestibular schwannoma is rare. It seems that displacement and distortion of the brainstem and compression of the contralateral trigeminal nerve in Meckel's cave by the large mass lesion may lead to this atypical presentation. The best practice in these patients is removal of the tumour, although persistent contralateral pain after operation has been reported.
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spelling pubmed-1535082003-04-19 Vestibular schwannoma with contralateral facial pain – case report Eftekhar, Behzad Gheini, Mohammadreza Ghodsi, Mohammad Ketabchi, Ebrahim BMC Neurol Case Report BACKGROUND: Vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma) most commonly presents with ipsilateral disturbances of acoustic, vestibular, trigeminal and facial nerves. Presentation of vestibular schwannoma with contralateral facial pain is quite uncommon. CASE PRESENTATION: Among 156 cases of operated vestibular schwannoma, we found one case with unusual presentation of contralateral hemifacial pain. CONCLUSION: The presentation of contralateral facial pain in the vestibular schwannoma is rare. It seems that displacement and distortion of the brainstem and compression of the contralateral trigeminal nerve in Meckel's cave by the large mass lesion may lead to this atypical presentation. The best practice in these patients is removal of the tumour, although persistent contralateral pain after operation has been reported. BioMed Central 2003-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC153508/ /pubmed/12659656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-3-2 Text en Copyright © 2003 Eftekhar et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.
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Eftekhar, Behzad
Gheini, Mohammadreza
Ghodsi, Mohammad
Ketabchi, Ebrahim
Vestibular schwannoma with contralateral facial pain – case report
title Vestibular schwannoma with contralateral facial pain – case report
title_full Vestibular schwannoma with contralateral facial pain – case report
title_fullStr Vestibular schwannoma with contralateral facial pain – case report
title_full_unstemmed Vestibular schwannoma with contralateral facial pain – case report
title_short Vestibular schwannoma with contralateral facial pain – case report
title_sort vestibular schwannoma with contralateral facial pain – case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC153508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12659656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-3-2
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