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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about acoustic neuroma and death from acoustic neuroma.
Meaning of acoustic neuroma
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, acoustic neuroma:
            (a)          means a benign neoplasm arising from Schwann cells of the vestibular or cochlear nerve; and
(b)          excludes acoustic neuroma associated with a tumour predisposition syndrome, such as neurofibromatosis or schwannomatosis.
Note 1: Acoustic neuroma is also known as vestibular schwannoma.
            Note 2: Typical presenting symptoms are progressive hearing loss and tinnitus. Imbalance, dizziness, vertigo, facial paraesthesia, and headache can also occur.
(3)          While acoustic neuroma attracts ICD‑10‑AM code D33.3, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of acoustic neuroma is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from acoustic neuroma
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, acoustic neuroma, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's acoustic neuroma.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.