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A Case of Bell’s Palsy with an Incidental Finding of a Cerebellopontine Angle Lipoma
- Source :
- Cureus
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Cureus, 2016.
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Abstract
- 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.
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21688184
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cureus
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9ce6647e9e6af225420b8303be1466f3