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Article: Corticosteroids found to arrest sudden hearing loss caused by acoustic neuromas.(Brief Article)
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- June 24, 2002
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2002 JUN 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Acoustic neuromas or schwannoma are benign neoplasms of the intracranial segment of the eighth cranial nerve, producing cerebellar, lower cranial nerve, and brainstem signs and symptoms. One of the chief complaints of patients with an acoustic neuroma is progressive hearing loss. However, 1 in 10 acoustic neuroma patients have sudden hearing loss (SHL) as their presenting complaint. The prevalence of such a neoplasm in all patients with SHL screened with auditory brain stem response (ABR) or MRI is thought to be about 2.5%.
Sudden hearing loss is characterized by rapid onset of sensorineural hearing loss, most commonly ...