Unilateral hearing loss due to a rhabdomyoma in a six-year-old child

Author(s): Pruszczynski, M., Marres, H. A. M., Grotenhuis, J. A., Cremers, C. W. R. J.

Journal/Book: J Laryngol Otol. 1995; 109: Invicta Press, Ashford, Kent, England TN24 8HH. Headley Brothers Ltd. 1186-1189.

Abstract: A case report of a six-year-old child is presented, who had had a unilateral sensorineural hearing loss for several years. Because of impairment in the ABR as well as in the caloric testing a MRI and CT scan were performed. A 17 mm tumour in the cerebellopontine angle (CPA) was detected, which after suboccipital surgery proved to be a rhabdomyoma. This tumour has not been described before in the CPA. Unilateral sensorineural hearing loss should, at all ages, be an indication for further (radiodiagnostic) investigations.

Note: Article JPPM Vanleeuwen, Univ Nijmegen Hosp, Dept Otorhinolaryngol, POB 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, Netherlands

Keyword(s): rhabdomyoma; hearing loss, unilateral; cerebello-pontine angle; child; SKELETAL-MUSCLE; TUMORS; HEAD; NECK; BRAIN

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