TUMORAL CAUSES OF VERTIGO

Abstract

The authors make a literature revision about tumoral causes of vertigo. Tumours causing vertigo may hove several anatomical locations, and can manifest themselves by central characteristics, peripheral or both. Cerebellopontine angle lesions are the predominont skull base neoplasms that affect the posterior fossa, the most common are Vestibular Neuromos and Meningiomos. Cerebellum tumors ore 30 % of introcranial tumors in paediatric age, among them Medulloblastomos. We present three clinical cases of central vertigo of neoplosic origin: a case of meduloblastoma, a meningioma and the third, a vestibular neuroma. The authors pretend to show the need of the ENT surgeon to look for possible causes of central vertigo, including neoplasic causes.