The shrinking vestibular schwannoma

Abstract

We present a case of spontaneous 79% regression in the size of a vestibular schwannoma (VS). A 41-year-old lady with a large (36 mm) vestibular schwannoma underwent serial follow-up MRI scans which demonstrated the shrinkage over 9 years; the highest relative spontaneous regression recorded in the literature for vestibular schwannoma of this size.

Keywords:

• Acoustic schwannoma
• conservative management
• surgery
• stereotactic radiosurgery
• cerebellopontine angle
• neurosurgery

Disclosure statement

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