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Case Reports
. 1980 Sep;53(3):397-400.
doi: 10.3171/jns.1980.53.3.0397.

Eighth nerve lipoma. Case report

W C Mattern, R E Blattner, J Werth, R Shuman, S Bloch, L G Leibrock
Case Reports

Eighth nerve lipoma. Case report

W C Mattern et al. J Neurosurg. 1980 Sep.

Abstract

A case of lipoma of the right eighth cranial nerve in the cerebellopontine angle (CPA) is presented. The patient had a clinical, diagnostic, surgical, and postoperative course similar to that of patients with other small CPA tumors. The literature on this rare CPA tumor is reviewed and discussed.

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