VESTIBULAR NERVE SCHWANNOMA, TREATED WITH GAMMA KNIFE AND DIAGNOSED AFTER TRANSITORY ISCHEMIC ATTACK IN POSTERIOR CEREBRAL VASCULARISATION

Snežana Filipović Danić ,
Snežana Filipović Danić

Medical Faculty, University of Priština - Kosovska Mitrovica, Mitrovica, Kosovo

Vekoslav Mitrović ,
Vekoslav Mitrović

Faculty of Medicine Foča, University of East Sarajevo, Lukavica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Boban Biševac ,
Boban Biševac

Clinic of neurology, Clinical center Niš, Niš, Serbia

Nenad Milošević ,
Nenad Milošević

Medical Faculty, University of Priština - Kosovska Mitrovica, Mitrovica, Kosovo

Jelena Dančetović
Jelena Dančetović

Medical Faculty, University of Priština - Kosovska Mitrovica, Mitrovica, Kosovo

Published: 01.12.2019.

Volume 47, Issue 2 (2019)

pp. 39-41;

https://doi.org/10.70949/pramed201902430F

Abstract

A case of a patient is shown, who was admitted for neurological exploration, with clinical manifestations of the cerebrovascular accident in the posterior circulation (TIA V-B vascularisation). In accordance with diagnostic protocol, an endocranial CT was performed. The results of the brain CT indicated an existence of an alteration in the right pontocerebellar angle area, which was subsequently diagnosed as a n. vestibularis schwannoma in an NMR examination. After a neurosurgical deliberation, the patient was treated with a gamma knife. After this surgery, which was done in a local anesthesia, the patient's condition was well and he was discharged. Control examinations have shown minor difficulties during the stimulation of the left ear auditive structures. Control examinations involving NMR showed no signs of recidivate focal findings.

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