Abstract
Two cases of acoustic neuroma with the onset of sudden deafness are reported. A patient with middle-tone hearing loss was treated by the intravenous infusion of steroids, and hearing loss improved. The tumor size of the patient was 8 mm. The other patient (tumor size: 20 mm) whose audiogram was off scale received the same treatment. However, his hearing loss showed no improvement. We analyzed the 37 previously reported cases to clarify the relationship between the type of hearing loss and size of the tumor. In patients with acoustic neuroma showing severe hearing loss, the tumor sizes were larger, and the rate of curing was lower than in patients with middle-tone hearing loss.
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