Cerebellar Bridge Angle Syndrome
The cerebellar bridge angle syndrome is a combination of symptoms that can occur with tumors in the cerebellar bridge angle (see cerebellar bridge angle tumors). The anatomy of the cerebellar bridge angle allows the derivation of the symptoms. Among the symptoms are: Hearing loss, tinnitus, dizziness, insecure gait (8th cranial nerve = nervus vestibulocochlearis), unilateral facial paresis, i.e. paralysis of the facial muscles (7th cranial nerve = nervus facialis).
Sensory disturbances up to trigeminal neuralgia, i.e. facial pain (5th cranial nerve = nervus tirgeminus) usually occur only in the case of larger tumors. The 6th cranial nerve (abducens nerve) can then also be affected, which leads to paralysis of the eye muscles. In the case of pronounced findings, brainstem compression (nausea, vomiting and disturbance of consciousness) and cerebellar symptoms (cerebellar insecurity of gait) may occur. The cerebral pressure increases progressively.
