Author/Editor		Černelč, S; Brezigar, A; Vatovec, J; Gros, A; Cerk, M
Title		Bilateral acoustic neurofibromatosis
Type		članek
Source		In: Tos M, Thomsen J, eds. Acoustic neuroma. 1st international conference on acoustic neuroma, Copenhagen 1991: proceedings. Amsterdam: Kugler publications,
Publication year		1992
Volume		str. 823-8
Language		eng
Abstract		In the period from 1978 to 1990, 42 patients with neurinoma of the eighth nerve, four patients with bilateral acoustic neurinoma and one patient with evident neurinoma of a single eighth nervce and suspected involvement of the other one were dingnosed at the University Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Cervicofacial Surgery in Ljubljana. The rational diagnostic procedure was introduced on the basis of revious experience. All the patients were operated on at the University Department of Neurosurgery in Ljubljana. Bilateral acoustic neurinomas can be regarded as one of the signs or the only sign of bilateral acoustic neurofibromatosis (BANF). Tlle dominant autosomal manner of disease inheritance was evident in two of our patients, and therefore out multidisciplinary study was extended to include a number of their relatives who were offered genetic counselling.
Descriptors		NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2 AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS AUDIOMETRY