Usually arises in cerebral Treatment is surgical and usually hemisphere in adults. Calcification may be successful. Signs of increased intracranial pressure intracranial pressure. occur late. Cerebellar Presents with disequilibrium, ataxia of trunk Treatment is surgical. May be associated with retinal and spinal vascular lesions, polycythemia, and hypernephromas.
Prognosis depends on histopathologic findings and extent of tumor.
May present at any age but usually in childhood, with endocrine dysfunction and bitemporal field defects. Subsequent symptoms may include translabyrinthine surgery, craniectomy, tinnitus, headache, vertigo, facial weakness or or a combined approach. Outcome is numbness, and long-tract signs. Most sensitive screening tests are MRI and brain stem auditory evoked potential. Tumor may recur compresses rather than invades adjacent neural if removal is incomplete.