INTRALABYRINTHINE SCHWANNOMA

Intralabyrinthine schwannoma is a rare tumor. Until the present time, the diagnosis, for the most part, has been made either incidentally du ring labyrinthectomy or described as a pathologic finding during tempo ral bone histologic studies. This article presents a patient with long -standing dysequilibrium and hearing loss due to an intralabyrinthine schwannoma. Diagnosis was made on the basis of a magnetic resonance im aging with gadolinium prior to surgery and confirmed pathologically on excision.