Toxic secretions from intracranial tumor damage the inner ear
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 10:12
in Health & Medicine
In some cases of vestibular schwannoma, a sometimes-lethal tumor often associated with neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2), secretions from the tumor contain toxic molecules that damage the inner ear. The findings explain why some vestibular schwannomas cause hearing loss even though they are not large enough to compress nearby structures that control hearing.