One sided partial hearing loss can be due to a large acoustic neuroma

Sumal Nandasena; Pradeep Anuruddha; Sunil Perera

Volume : V, Issue : XII, December - 2016

One sided partial hearing loss can be due to a large acoustic neuroma

Sumal Nandasena, Pradeep Anuruddha, Sunil Perera

Abstract :

One sided he� loss can be due to a variety of reasons; one could be sensorineural he� loss. ?ough it is rare, most commonly seen presenting symptom of Acoustic Neuroma (AN) (i.e., vestibular schwannoma) is also the he� loss. AN is a benign tumor; and the commonest tumor at the cerebellopontine angle. At the time of detection of AN, patients are usually present with a variety of symptoms. In this patient, also the first author, we report a large AN only with the partial he� loss; stressing the importance of investigating every patient present only with one sided partial he� loss.