cerebellopontine angle syndrome

cerebellopontine angle syndrome
a syndrome caused by a tumor of the cerebellopontine angle or an acoustic tumor, characterized by hearing loss, subjective noises, ipsilateral cerebellar ataxia, and eventually ipsilateral impairment of function of the sixth and seventh cranial nerves accompanied by elevated intracranial pressure.

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