INTRODUCTION To report our experience with a large series of surgical procedures for removal of cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumors using different approaches. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a retrospective analysis of 50 patients (mean age, 49 years) with CPA tumors (predominantly acoustic neuroma) who underwent surgical removal using appropriate techniques (principally a translabyrinthine a...


 OBJECTIVES:
 To determine the frequency of cerebellopontine angle tumors in patients presented with trigeminal neuralgia.
 METHODOLOGY:
 This descriptive study was conducted Neurosurgery Department, Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar from 01-01-2016 to 31-12-2019. Patients either gender and above 18 years age diagnosed be having neuralgia being symptomatic a minimum durat...

Vascular compression of the trigeminal nerve in the cerebellopontine angle is now generally accepted as the primary source or "trigger" causing trigeminal neuralgia. A clear clinicopathological association exists in the neurovascular relationship. In general, pain in the third division of the trigeminal nerve is caused by rostral compression, pain in the second division is caused by medial or m...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the postoperative auditory and facial nerve function results after cerebellopontine angle meningioma removal. DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Tertiary care referral center. PATIENTS Twenty-one patients undergoing surgical removal of cerebellopontine angle meningiomas by the senior author (R.J.W.). INTERVENTIONS Translabyrinthine or retrosigmoid approa...

Intracranial epidermoid cysts are uncommon benign tumors of developmental origin; malignant transformation of benign epidermoid cysts is rare, and their prognosis remains poor. We report a case of squamous cell carcinoma arising in the cerebellopontine angle. A 52-year-old man presented with left facial paralysis and cerebellar ataxia. He had undergone total removal of a benign epidermoid cyst ...