Some opinions of some clinical and paraclinical features of the cerebellar potine angle tumors

ABSTRACT

54 patients with the cerebellar pontine angle tumor in Bach Mai, Viet Duc, Sainfaul, Hai Ba Trung Hospitals during 1/1998 - 10/2001 participated to a study. The results have shown that most of them were acoustic neurinoma 33/54 (61.1%), next to meningioma 10/54 (18.5%) and other tumors included medulloblastoma 5(9.2%), astroytoma 2 (3.7%), hemangioblastoma 2 (3.7%), metastasis tumor 1 (1,9%) and nerve V tumor 1 (1.9%). The acoustic neurinoma usually progresses slowly and its initial symptoms included tinitus, hearing loss. An imbalance is the first symptom of expansion of the tumor from cerebella to the pontine angle.