Angioleiomyoma of the internal auditory canal: clinical and radiographic features.

OBJECTIVE

Discussion of a rare case of angioleiomyoma of the internal auditory canal.

PATIENT: Thirteen-year-old female patient with a 1-year history of progressive hearing loss.

INTERVENTION: Middle cranial fossa approach providing complete surgical extirpation.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Surgical pathology.

RESULTS

Radiography and history suggestive of vestibular schwannoma; pathology revealed angioleiomyoma.

CONCLUSION

Angioleiomyoma is a rare lesion of the internal auditory canal that has many similar clinical and radiographic features of a vestibular schwannoma. There are no previous reports of this tumor occurring within the internal auditory canal in this age group.