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Oculomotor nerve palsy in neurofibromatosis type 2

Radiology Case Reports, 2022
Neurofibromatosis (NF) type 2 is a rare neurological, autosomal dominant and genetic disorder. It is caused by a mutation in the tumor suppressor gene, called NF2 gene. The disorder results in several benign tumors of the nervous system.
Aymen Shahab, MBBS, Hafsa Sardar, MBBS, Samaa Akhtar, MD, MSc, Anam Safdar, MBBS,FCPS, Muhammad Ismail Safi, MD, Izaz Ahmad, Faheemullah Khan, MBBS,MD   +6 more
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Neurofibromatosis 2: rare constellation of findings with extensive cranial nerve involvement

Radiology Case Reports, 2021
In this report, we aim to present a sporadic case of a 17-year old female patient who presented to the Radiodiagnosis department in JSS Hospital, Mysuru, India with complaints of insidious onset of difficulty in walking, motor & sensory impairment ...
Rudresh Hiremath, MD, EDIR, Vishnu Dakshin, MBBS, MD, Sonal Agrawal, MBBS, MD   +2 more
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Is Preoperative Facial Palsy a Deterrent to Facial Nerve Preservation after Gross-Total Removal of Giant Vestibular Schwannomas?

Indian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2023
Background Although rare in small vestibular schwannomas, preoperative facial nerve paresis is often present in giant schwannomas. Preserving facial nerve function in these cases remains a herculean task.
Debabrata Sahana, Sanjeev Kumar, Lavlesh Rathore, Jatinder Mittal, Rajiv K. Sahu, Amit K. Jain, Manish Tawari   +6 more
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Dosimetric Analysis of Neural and Vascular Structures in Skull Base Tumors Treated with Stereotactic Radiosurgery. [PDF]

, 2017
Objective To examine the relationship between the prescribed target dose and the dose to healthy neurovascular structures in patients with vestibular schwannomas treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).
Bhatt, Jay M, Chenery, Stafford, Djalilian, Hamid R, Ghavami, Yaser, Haidar, Yarah M, Moshtaghi, Omid, Schwer, Amanda   +6 more
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Multiple Cranial Nerve Involvement in a Complex Case of MISME Syndrome in a Paediatric Patient: A Case Report [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) is characterised by numerous tumours in the central and peripheral nervous systems due to NF2 gene abnormalities that cause the tumour suppressor protein, Merlin, to disappear. Often referred to as Multiple Inherited Schwannomas,
Afwaan Faizal, Michael Antony Vikram, Ajay Lucas Rubben Prabhu, Dinesh Babu Jawahar, Sam Raja   +4 more
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NF2/merlin in hereditary neurofibromatosis 2 versus cancer: biologic mechanisms and clinical associations. [PDF]

, 2013
Inactivating germline mutations in the tumor suppressor gene NF2 cause the hereditary syndrome neurofibromatosis 2, which is characterized by the development of neoplasms of the nervous system, most notably bilateral vestibular schwannoma.
Angelo, Laura S, Kurzrock, Razelle, Schroeder, Rebecca Dunbar   +2 more
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Vestibular schwannoma and ipsilateral endolymphatic hydrops: an unusual association [PDF]

, 2017
Vestibular schwannoma and endolymphatic hydrops are two conditions that may present with similar audio-vestibular symptoms. The association of the two in the same patient represents an unusual nding that may lead clinicians to errors and delays in ...
ALTISSIMI, Giancarlo, CIANFRONE, Giancarlo, D'AGUANNO, VITTORIO, DE VINCENTIIS, Marco, GRECO, Antonio, LONGO, Lucia, RALLI, MASSIMO, TOMBOLINI, MARIO, TURCHETTA, Rosaria   +8 more
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Benign retroperitoneal schwannoma presenting as colitis: A case report [PDF]

, 2007
We report a case of a patient presenting with clinical , radiological and endoscopic features of colitis due to a compressive left para-aortic mass.
Claes, Kathleen, da Costa, Pierre Mendes, Duttmann, Ruth, Fass, Gary, Hossey, Didier, Nyst, Michel, Saligheh, Esmail Najar, Smets, Dirk   +7 more
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Surgical treatment of sporadic vestibular schwannoma in a series of 1006 patients. Trattamento chirurgico degli schwannomi vestibolari: risultati su una serie di 1006 pazienti [PDF]

, 2016
La gestione dello schwannoma vestibolare (SV) sporadico si è gradualmente evoluta negli ultimi decenni. Lo scopo di questo studio è di analizzare l’evoluzione negli esiti chirurgici dell’exeresi di queste lesioni, realizzata da un team neurotologico tra
BERNARDESCHI, DANIELE, DE SETA, DANIELE, Kalamarides, M, Nguyen, Y, Rey, A, RUSSO, FRANCESCA YOSHIE, Sterkers, O, Zhang, Z   +7 more
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The molecular pathogenesis of schwannomatosis, a paradigm for the co-involvement of multiple tumour suppressor genes in tumorigenesis [PDF]

, 2016
Schwannomatosis is characterized by the predisposition to develop multiple schwannomas and, less commonly, meningiomas. Despite the clinical overlap with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), schwannomatosis is not caused by germline NF2 gene mutations ...
Cooper, David Neil, Farschtschi, Said, Kehrer-Sawatzki, Hildegard, Mautner, Victor-Felix   +3 more
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