Cerebral salt wasting syndrome as a postoperative complication after surgical resection of acoustic neuroma.

ABSTRACT

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective case review. SETTING: Tertiary care, university hospital. PATIENTS The authors describe two patients operated on for acoustic neuroma in whom hyponatremia occurred after intervention. INTERVENTIONS: Acoustic neuroma surgery. RESULTS: Wrong diagnosis in case of central nervous system disorder associated with hyponatremia can have fatal consequences. CONCLUSIONS: To the authors' knowledge, this is the first case report associating cerebral salt wasting syndrome with previous surgical resection of acoustic neuroma.