Lecture presented at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Learning Center on Treatment of Hearing Loss.  Lecture was sponsored The American Hearing Research Foundation.

Glomus Juglure tumor are among a class of paraganglioma tumors.  They are typically found in isolation and are benign and originate from specific regions of receptor cells intimately attached to the jugular vein and base of skull in the region of the jugular foramen.  10% however can be either multiple or manifest more agressive pathological featurs.  This area is a conduit for some of the blood vessels and cranial nerves.  Because they are quite vascular, we also work in clo

The following video demonstrates the resection and interposition grafting for a facial neuroma patient.  The patient presented with a near complete facial nerve paralysis with normal hearing.  The middle cranial fossa approach was utilized to preserve the hearing and balance function.  A graft taken from the sural nerve was inserted into the gap created from the tumor and sewn to unaffected nerve endings.  The patient also underwent supplementarly facial nerve reaninmation pr

It started with a face twitch. Mary Broderick, of Elgin, didn't think much of it until her face began drooping on one side. After living with a misdiagnosis of Bell's palsy for three years, Broderick was determined to find out what was really going on. An online search led her to Northwestern Medicine cranial base surgeon Dr. Andrew J. Fishman; and finally a correct, but alarming diagnosis. Broderick had a cancerous tumor in the parotid gland, the main salivary gland. It was