A noncancerous tumour of nerve tissue. In most cases, the cause is unknown; rarely, a neuroma develops as a result of damage to a nerve.A neuroma may affect any nerve in the body. Symptoms vary, but there is often intermittent pain and sometimes weakness and numbness in the areas that are supplied by the affected nerve.
If symptoms are troublesome, the tumour may be surgically removed. (See also acoustic neuroma.)
Neuroma means a TUMOUR connected with a NERVE – such tumours being generally composed of ?brous tissue, and of a painful nature.
n. any tumour derived from cells of the nervous system. Such tumours are now usually categorized more specifically (e.g. *neurofibroma, *neurilemmoma). See also vestibular schwannoma.
A slow-growing, benign tumour in the auditory canal arising from the Schwann cells of the acoustic cranial nerve. The neuroma, which accounts for about 7 per cent of all tumours inside the CRANIUM, may cause facial numbness, hearing loss, unsteady balance, headache, and TINNITUS. It can usually be removed surgically, sometimes with microsurgical techniques that preserve the facial nerve.... acoustic neuroma
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