ACOUSTIC NEUROMA REVEALED BY VERTIGO: A CASE REPORT

Authors

  • Mohamed Ali GLITI Resident physician in otorhinolaryngology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ibn Sina University Hospital, Rabat, Morocco.
  • Omar Laasikri Resident physician in otorhinolaryngology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ibn Sina University Hospital, Rabat, Morocco.
  • Sophia Nitassi Professor of otorhinolaryngology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ibn Sina University Hospital, Rabat, Morocco.
  • Bencheikh Razika Professor of otorhinolaryngology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ibn Sina University Hospital, Rabat, Morocco.
  • Benbouzid Mohamed Anas Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco.
  • Leila Essakalli Houssyni Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53555/eijmhs.v6i2.135

Keywords:

Acoustic Neuroma, Vertigo, Postural Balance, Posturography

Abstract

Objectif: Describe the different unusual clinical presentation of the acoustic neuroma.

Material and method:  We report the case of a 51-year-old man who presented with a acoustic neurinoma revealed by vertigo. 

Clinical case: Mr. Z.M presented presented progressively the instalation of an intense rotational non-positional vertigo, without concept of tinnitusthe, the evolution may show a deafness of transmission, discordant with the attack cochlear retrehearing .The vestibular test results showed a left vestibular deficit with a right preponderance. And the MRI finally objectified an Acoustic Neuroma (NA).

Conclusion: The unforeseen development of the NA should make evoke in certain forms of rotary vertigo, even without obvious otological signs, a hypothesis of retro cochlear involvement, in locurance an acoustic neuroma. Vestibular tests can be a means of evaluating the evolution of the size of these tumors.

 

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