A Case of Bell’s Palsy with an Incidental Finding of a Cerebellopontine Angle Lipoma
| Autor: | Timothy T. Bui, Carlito Lagman, Seung J. Lee, Isaac Yang, Howard Warren Goldman, Lawrance K. Chung, Winward Choy |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
lipomas bell palsy Neurosurgery Asymptomatic 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Bell's palsy medicine otorhinolaryngologic diseases heterocyclic compounds Palsy business.industry General Engineering Bell Palsy 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Lipoma Cerebellopontine angle medicine.disease Surgery body regions stomatognathic diseases Serial imaging Neurology cardiovascular system cerebellopontine angle tumor Radiology medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Cureus |
| ISSN: | 2168-8184 |
| Popis: | This case report illustrates the potential fallacy of attributing a patient's symptoms to an incidental finding. Serial imaging of small, asymptomatic cerebellopontine angle (CPA) lipomas is favored. It is imperative to accurately diagnose CPA lipoma on imaging and differentiate it from more common CPA lesions. We herein present a patient with symptoms consistent with Bell's palsy and an incidental finding of a CPA lipoma. Additionally, we performed a review of the literature for case reports of patients presenting with facial symptoms and diagnosed with a CPA lipoma. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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