neuroma
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In 2019, he praised his wife, calling her an "incredible role model" after she was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma and had to undergo surgery.
From Fox News ● Mar. 25, 2022
An acoustic neuroma was rarer but also possible.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
After an MRI scan ruled out a benign tumor called an acoustic neuroma, Cutter began receiving steroid injections in her ear which, doctors hoped, would restore her hearing.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2021
The Angels announced Sunday that Mike Trout will undergo season-ending right foot surgery this week to address Morton’s neuroma, a condition that causes pain in the ball of the foot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2019
Quoted by Senn, Campbell de Morgan met with a plexiform neuroma of the musculo-spiral nerve and its branches.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
Vestibular schwannomas, also called acoustic neuromas, start in the nerve that connects the brain to the ear, according to Cancer Research UK.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2021
On May 5, Whitney released and relocated the affected nerves and removed three traumatic neuromas — scar balls of nerve endings that develop after an injury.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2021
Malignant schwannomas are similar to acoustic neuromas, benign tumors that can develop in people, in the nerve that connects the ear to the brain.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
Malignant schwannomas are similar to acoustic neuromas, benign tumors that can develop in people in the nerve that connects the ear to the brain.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
False neuromas, or neurofibromas, are knotty, spreading tumors of the size of a large potato, which are developed within the nerve sheaths and composed of nerve fibers and connective tissue bands interlaced.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
The case of the neuromata is well worth reflecting upon, in the course of our endeavors to clear up the Pathology and Etiology of Neuralgia.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
Among neuromata, multiple neurofibroma is of considerable interest, chiefly for the extent of general involvement.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
The true neuromata are composed mainly of nerve-tissue, with a relatively small element of connective tissue: the nerve-fibres can be traced directly to the nerve-tumor.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
Prudden reports the case of a girl of twenty-five who, during convalescence from variola, became paraplegic, and during this time multiple neuromata appeared.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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