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Nataa Klepac, MD; Sanja Hajnek, MD, PhD; Iva Topi, MD; Kamelija arkovi, MD, PhD; David Ozreti, MD; Mario Habek, MD
Zagreb School of Medicine and University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2009;135(8):828.

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A 28-year-old man presented with a 2-week history of vertigo and tremor of his right arm. The symptoms were episodic. A neurologic examination revealed weakness and a postural and intentional tremor of the right hand. Audiometric evaluation demonstrated a downsloping sensorineural hearing loss in the right ear. Auditory brainstem evoked responses were also abnormal in the right acoustic pathway between the acoustic nerve and the inferior nuclei in the pons. The left ear was normal.

Computed tomography revealed a low-density mass measuring 5.0 mm in diameter in the right cerebellopontine angle (CPA). Magnetic resonance imaging without gadolinium revealed an expansive mass in the right CPA that was attached to the seventh and eighth cranial nerves. The mass was hyperintense on T1-weighted images (Figure, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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