Cerebral salt wasting syndrome as a postoperative complication after surgical resection of acoustic neuroma.

STUDY

DESIGN

Retrospective case review.

SETTING

Tertiary care, university hospital.

PATIENTS: The authors describe two patients operated on for acoustic neuroma in whom hyponatremia occurred after intervention.

INTERVENTIONS: Acoustic neuroma surgery.

RESULTS

Wrong diagnosis in case of central nervous system disorder associated with hyponatremia can have fatal consequences.

CONCLUSIONS

To the authors' knowledge, this is the first case report associating cerebral salt wasting syndrome with previous surgical resection of acoustic neuroma.