Cystic vestibular schwannomas: neuroimaging and growth rate
- 1 May 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Laryngology & Otology
- Vol. 108 (5), 375-379
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022215100126854
Abstract
In a series of 571 vestibular schwannomas (VS) operated on in the period 1976–1992, via the translabyrinthine approach, 23 tumours (4 per cent) from 23 patients were radiologically, peroperatively and histologically identified as cystic VS. Neuroimaging examinations (CT and MRI) revealed 15 tumours (2.6 per cent) with extracystic formations and in eight cases (1.4 per cent) intratumoural cysts. In 15 cases (65 per cent), tumours were located extracanalicularly with no involvement of the internal auditory canal (IAC). The extracanalicular tumour extension including the cystic elements ranged between 10 and 60 mm with a mean of 45 mm. In eight cases out of 23 (35 per cent) other diagnostic possibilities such as trigeminal schwannoma, epidermoid cyst and meningioma were proposed at the primary evaluation. Deformation, displacement and/or impression of the fourth ventricle was demonstrated in 17 cases (74 per cent). Three patients (13 per cent) had obstructive hydrocephalus which demanded shunt insertion. Residual tumour was detected in two patients (9 per cent). Growth rate in four cases was more than 10 times higher when compared to the annual growth rate of noncystic VS. The results of this study provide data on cystic VS attenuation demonstrated by CT or MRI which may be valuable in neuroradiological diagnosis of these cystic lesions and emphasizes that the wait-and-see policy should not be applied to the cystic variant of VS.Keywords
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