We are often approached by patients with the following diagnoses:
Tumors of the brain (cerebellum, pons-cerebellar angle, stem-basal structures)
Meningiomas and other extracerebral tumors (mainly posterior cranial fossa and skull base)
Tumors of cranial nerves (neurinomas, schwannomas, neurofibromas, gasseromas)
Paragangliomas (“glomus tumors“)
Dermoid cysts (epidermoid tumors, cholesteatomas)
Neuralgia of the trigeminal, lingual-pharyngeal and other cranial nerves
Hemilic spasm, Meniere’s syndrome and other hyperactive dysfunctions of the cranial nerves, including essential hypertension
Hydrocephalus in adults, in particular normotensive hydrocephalus in the elderly
Abnormalities in the development of the nervous system (arachnoid cysts, anomalies of Arnold-Chiari, Dandy-Walker, etc., such as: syringobulbia, hydromyelia, tettered cord syndrome = fixed spinal cord)