This article provides an introduction to radiation therapy as it applies to intracranial tumors. It also provides a review of the natural growth progression of acoustic neuromas and accuracy of tumor size determination. Literature on the use of linear accelerator stereotactic radiosurgery and fractionated radiotherapy in acoustic neuroma management is reviewed and summarized. Specifically, the ...

Mucocele and traumatic neuroma are two lesions related to the traumatic events; however there is only one reported case in which these two entities were perceived simultaneously. The current study reported a 21-year-old man who complained of painless recurrent swelling, accompanied by paresthesia on his left lower labial mucosa. He had a previous history of similar lesion and had been treated w...

A stump neuroma is caused by the disorganised growth of axon cylinders into proliferating granulation tissue, but this is stopped by an undamaged epineural sleeve. We report experiments in the rat in which the epineural sleeve of the stump of the sciatic nerve was freed from nerve fascicles for about 5 mm and then sealed with a synthetic tissue adhesive. Neuroma formation was largely prevented ...

Nerve pathologies are a common cause of forefoot pain and include diverse conditions with similar symptoms. The symptoms are characteristic of sensory nerve disorders and differ from other musculoskeletal conditions. Morton’s intermetatarsal neuroma is a compression neuropathy of the common digital nerve (Fig. 1). It is most commonly seen in the third intermetatarsal space, but it also can be s...

Neural tumors composed of Pacinian corpuscles are rare and have only occasionally been reported in the literature. All such lesions, which have been reported to date, have been benign. One such lesion described here presented as a painful lesion on the right hand in a 17-year-old Omani female. There was history of trap door injury 7 years back involving the wrist, thumb and index finger. The pa...

Using clicks with varying interstimulus intervals and coherent tone-bursts, early components of the auditory evoked potential (brain stem responses) were studied in four patients with confirmed acoustic neuroma. Abnormalities in responses appeared with shorter interstimulus intervals and with tone-bursts delivered monaurally to the involved ear; bilateral alterations occurred in one patient wit...

More and more patients are seeking advice on medical internet forums, which give them the chance to communicate easily with other laypeople as well doctors. Examining a forum acoustic neuroma, this paper investigates features of specific type discourse, in particular how medium influences way communicating information, changing role moderators online environment.

palisaded encapsulated (solitary circumscribed) neuromas (pens) are relatively common intraoral neurogenic tumors, which occur most frequently on the hard palate. herein, we describe the clinicopathological characteristics of a palisaded encapsulated neuroma of the tongue. this tumor was an exophytic sessile mass measuring 0.3× 0.4 cm with rubbery consistency on the anterior one-third of the do...

We report a case of 55 year old male patient who presented with recurrent upper abdominal pain following a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A subsequent diagnostic laparoscopy revealed the presence of a second gallbladder which was initially missed. The peculiarity of his symptoms can in part be explained by the presence of a traumatic neuroma in his second gallbladder. A subsequent cholecystectom...