Mucocutaneous Neuromas

Acoustic Neuromas.

Patients with acoustic neuromas have several treatment options that include observation, surgical resection, stereotactic radiosurgery, and fractionated radiotherapy. Resection is indicated for patients with larger tumors that have caused major neurologic deficits from brain compression. Surgeons perform stereotactic radiosurgery as the main alternative to acoustic tumor resection with the goal...

Bilateral 'acoustic' neuromas.

Cystic acoustic neuromas.

Predominantly cystic acoustic neuromas are rare and they usually present with clinical and radiological features different from their more common solid counterparts. Two cases of cystic acoustic neuromas are reported here.

Acoustic neuromas in children.

Although unilateral acoustic neuromas in children are rare, they do occur. There is no gender predilection and the clinical symptoms and signs are similar to those seen in adults. They tend to occur in the absence of neurofibromatosis and are usually benign. Our patient is the youngest yet reported with documented unilateral acoustic neuroma; moreover; she is the first child in whom this tumor ...

Multiple cutaneous linear neuromas.

MEN: multiple endocrine neoplasia PEN: palisaded and encapsulated neuroma PTEN: phosphatase and tensin homolog PTHS: PTEN tumor-hamartoma syndrome M ultiple cutaneous neuromas are an uncommon finding that has been reported to occur idiopathically and in association with multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) 2B and phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) tumorhamartoma syndrome (PTHS). Multiple cutan...