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General Category => AN Issues => Topic started by: Ned on March 15, 2012, 06:09:10 pm

Title: Multiple AN's
Post by: Ned on March 15, 2012, 06:09:10 pm

Can one have an AN and then get another AN on the same side.  I understand NF2, looking at the possibility of another tumor, in the same ear as one that had been treated with FSR?

Title: Re: Multiple AN's
Post by: Cheryl R on March 15, 2012, 07:16:41 pm

I have had 2 different on one side but I am NF2 so might not be what you are looking for.        It will be interesting to see if anyone else has had one.                                Cheryl R

Title: Re: Multiple AN's
Post by: nftwoed on March 16, 2012, 02:16:09 pm

Hi Ned;

  Yes; But it's likely to turn up a NF-2 Dx. Esp. if you were under 30 the first AN.
  The second AN may have a line of demarcation definitely separating it from the other AN, or the AN may be "multilobular".
  It would be interesting if the 2nd AN arose from a different nerve!
  I doubt FSR is at issue here as there exist surgical failures as well. Or, it may have not failed and you just grew another AN?

Quote from: Ned on March 15, 2012, 06:09:10 pm

Can one have an AN and then get another AN on the same side.  I understand NF2, looking at the possibility of another tumor, in the same ear as one that had been treated with FSR?