TUMORS AND OTHER GROWTHS THAT CAN CAUSE DIZZINESS, IMBALANCE AND HEARING DISORDERS

Timothy C. Hain, MD Page last modified: October 10, 2008

This page provides links to other pages on this site that discuss tumors of the ear or brain that can cause dizziness. These are mainly "primary" tumors - -meaning that they did not arise from somewhere else. In general, malignant tumors from other parts of the body can go anywhere there is a blood supply, which of course includes the ear and related structures. However, the inner ear is a small target (about the size of a dime) and for this reason it is very unusual for cancer to spread to the inner ear.

• Tumors of various parts of the ear (see "master ear" picture above)
  • external ear
    • Osteoma of the external ear canal
  • middle ear
    • cholesteatoma of the middle ear
    • Glomus Tumor (of the middle ear)
  • inner ear
    • Acoustic Neuroma (of the 8th nerve)
    • Cochlear schwannoma
    • endolymphatic sac tumor
• Tumors of the brainstem and cerebellum area
  • Acoustic Neuroma (of the 8th nerve)
  • Astrocytoma (of the cerebellum)
  • Melanoma of cerebellar pontine angle
  • Medulloblastoma (of the cerebellum)
  • Meningioma of the cerebello-pontine angle
  • Subarachnoid Cyst