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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / October 2004benign tumour
Just been told by my ENT consultant that my assymetric T (left ear only) is indicative of a small benign tumour. I will need to have an MRI scan Anyone been down this path? johnleslie@madasafish.com (John Leslie) wrote in part: >Just been told by my ENT consultant that my assymetric T (left ear >only) is indicative of a small benign tumour. I will need to have an >MRI scan > >Anyone been down this path? Is he basing that diagnosis on an ABR/BAER/BSER test? (Auditory brainstem response test.) Otherwise, your chance of a neuroma is still very slight. No hearing loss or dizziness? Only tinnitus?  SignatureJim Chinnis / Warrenton, Virginia, USA Want to discuss Meniere's? See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MenieresDG Either he didn't state it with clarity or you may be misinterpreting/misstating what s/he said. Unilateral tinnitus raises a red flag for the possibility of an acoustic neuroma. But it does not mean that it "is indicative of a small benign tumour", which to me is a far more positive statement that the tumor is present. So s/he is doing the MRI to cover the bases and to determine "if" a tumor is present. Be sure to have them give you hearing protectors when they do the MRI. These machines are very noisy and have the potential to worsen your T. HNG > Just been told by my ENT consultant that my assymetric T (left ear > only) is indicative of a small benign tumour. I will need to have an > MRI scan > > Anyone been down this path? >Just been told by my ENT consultant that my assymetric T (left ear >only) is indicative of a small benign tumour. I will need to have an >MRI scan > >Anyone been down this path? There is a blow by blow description of an MRI procedure here: http://eebee.net/mri.shtml Tinnitus is a pain in the neck Elly's Tinnitus Resources http://eebee.net/ Sounds terrifying! > >Just been told by my ENT consultant that my assymetric T (left ear > >only) is indicative of a small benign tumour. I will need to have an [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Elly's Tinnitus Resources > http://eebee.net/ Again you won't know if it is a growth or not until the MRI. If it is, these are slow growing and fairly easy to treat. Murray Grossan, M.D. http://www.ent-consult.com > Sounds terrifying! Why? I've have had a couple MRI's in my lifetime and they are fairly quick and very painless; if you need one, don't forgo it because of the process. frank
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