[A Rare Case of Cerebellar Hemangioblastoma Causing Taste Disorder].

Abstract

Taste(gustation)is one of the five senses, and comprises the types: sweet, bitter, salty, sour, and umami. Taste disorders, such as dysgeusia and parageusia, are classified into 2 types: those with peripheral origin and those with central origin. The peripheral origin-type taste disorder is caused by zinc deficiency, mouth dryness, a side effect of radiotherapy or complication of systemic diseases such as, diabetes, hepatopathy, and nephropathy. The central origin-type taste disorder is reported to be caused due to demyelinating disease, pontine hemorrhage, pontine infarction, and thalamic infarction; it is very rarely caused by a brain tumor. We surgically treated a 69-year-old man with cerebellar hemangioblastoma who had developed taste disorder. The tumor compressed the solitary nucleus, which includes the taste tract in the central nervous system. On removal of the tumor, the taste disorder gradually improved.

• Authors: Hiroko Nakashiro, Masatou Kawashima, Fumitaka Yoshioka, Yukiko Nakahara, Yukinori Takase, Atsushi Ogata, Shoko Shimokawa, Jun Masuoka, Tatsuya Abe, Toshio Matsushima
• Journal: No shinkei geka. Neurological surgery (No Shinkei Geka) Vol. 45 Issue 3 Pg. 219-224 (Mar 2017) ISSN: 0301-2603 [Print] Japan
• PMID: 28297687 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Aged
• Central Nervous System (pathology, surgery)
• Cerebellar Neoplasms (complications, diagnosis, surgery)
• Cerebral Infarction (complications, surgery)
• Hemangioblastoma (complications, diagnosis, surgery)
• Humans
• Male
• Taste (physiology)
• Taste Disorders (complications, diagnosis, surgery)
• Treatment Outcome