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Unilateral vestibular schwannoma in a patient with schwannomatosis in the absence of LZTR1 mutation.
Journal of neurosurgery - 1 Dec 2016
Mehta Gautam U, Feldman Michael J, Wang Herui, Ding Dale, Chittiboina Prashant
Abstract excerpt
The presence of vestibular schwannomas has long been considered an exclusion criterion for the diagnosis of schwannomatosis. Recently, 2 cases of vestibular schwannoma were reported in patients with schwannomatosis, leading to a revision of the diagnostic criteria for this genetic disorder. Overall, the relative infrequency of vestibular schwannomas in schwannomatosis is unexplained, and the genetics of this...
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