[Surgical treatment of trigeminal neurinoma]

The article presents the group of five patients with clinical and radiological symptoms of trigeminal neurinoma that were operated on in the Neurosurgical Clinic of Central Clinical Hospital of Military Medical Academy in the five-years period (1995-2000). Three of them were operated in a single step procedure from subtemporal and suboccipital approach. Two other were operated in two steps, also from subtemporal and suboccipital approaches. Four neurinomas were removed radically, as confirmed by CT, and MRI scans. All the patients are independent and professionally active. Complications observed after the operation were: persistent anaesthesia in the trigeminal area, atrophy of the masseter muscle, transient paresis of the facial nerve with ulceration and opacification of the cornea, and transient paresis of the abducens nerve.