Surgeons attempt to restore hearing to patient with rare tumour
Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 08:07
in Health & Medicine
Physicians at the University of Illinois Medical Centre at Chicago performed a rare surgery this week to restore hearing to a deaf patient. Marisela Leon, 44, has neurofibromatosis type 2 - a rare genetic condition that causes tumours to grow on nerves in the brain or spinal cord, but most commonly on the auditory nerve. Leon lost her hearing more than four years ago when surgery to remove a tumour damaged her auditory nerve...