TY - JOUR
T1 - Intravascular lymphomatosis presenting with sudden hearing loss
AU - Berger, Joseph R.
AU - Jones, Raleigh
AU - Wilson, Dianne
PY - 2005/5/15
Y1 - 2005/5/15
N2 - Intravascular lymphoma (IVL) is a rare disorder characterized by the aggregation of malignant large cell lymphoma cells in small vessels. Neurological manifestations are typically the initial and, often the only, clinically obvious consequences of this malignancy. Diagnosis is dependent on biopsy or postmortem demonstration of the intravascular tumor. We report a patient in whom sudden hearing loss heralded IVL and propose that the hearing loss may have been the consequence of labyrinthine infarction consequent to the aggregation of malignant cells in the internal auditory artery.
AB - Intravascular lymphoma (IVL) is a rare disorder characterized by the aggregation of malignant large cell lymphoma cells in small vessels. Neurological manifestations are typically the initial and, often the only, clinically obvious consequences of this malignancy. Diagnosis is dependent on biopsy or postmortem demonstration of the intravascular tumor. We report a patient in whom sudden hearing loss heralded IVL and propose that the hearing loss may have been the consequence of labyrinthine infarction consequent to the aggregation of malignant cells in the internal auditory artery.
KW - B cell lymphoma
KW - Hearing loss
KW - Intravascular lymphoma
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jns.2005.01.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jns.2005.01.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 15850590
AN - SCOPUS:17844410625
SN - 0022-510X
VL - 232
SP - 105
EP - 109
JO - Journal of the Neurological Sciences
JF - Journal of the Neurological Sciences
IS - 1-2
ER -