Microsurgery for Vestibular Schwannoma via Retrosigmoid ...

Functional preservation of cranial nerves remains an issue in surgical treatment of vestibular schwannoma. To explore the functional outcomes of vestibular ...

In vestibular schwannoma microsurgery, tumor size is an important parameter that affects the localization of the facial nerve, the extent of resection, ...

Microsurgical Resection of Intracanalicular Vestibular Schwannoma ...

A retrosigmoid approach was employed, and the posterior wall of the internal auditory canal was opened, allowing exposure of tumor and its total resection.

Microsurgery for vestibular schwannoma: analysis of short-term ...

All 100 patients including 34 males and 66 females were operated on via retro-sigmoid approach. According to Koos vestibular schwannoma grading ...

Microsurgical Resection of Vestibular Schwannomas,... : Operative ...

Microsurgery was performed and resection through a retrosigmoid approach 2 , 3 with anatomic and functional preservation of the facial and cochlear nerve. Case ...

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In vestibular schwannoma microsurgery, tumor size is an important parameter that affects the localization of the facial nerve, the extent of resection, ...

Surgery for vestibular schwannomas: a systematic review of ...

The retrosigmoid approach involved less facial nerve dysfunction than the middle cranial fossa or translabyrinthine approaches for tumors 1.5–3.0 cm (6.1%, 17.3 ...

Surgery for Acoustic Neuroma: Retrosigmoid Approach

Management options for VSs include observation with serial imaging, microsurgical resection, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), and a combination of resection and ...

Complications of Microsurgery of Vestibular Schwannoma

In general, the increased visualization of the surgical field, through the use of endoscopes, helps to identify possible CSF leakage and also ...

Surgical Approaches for Vestibular Schwannoma

The retrosigmoid, translabyrinthine, and middle fossa craniotomies are the three most commonly employed approaches for microsurgical resection.

Endoscope-Assisted Retrosigmoid Approach for Vestibular ...

The retrosigmoid approach is the workhorse for management of CPA lesions. Most vestibular schwannomas present with intracanalicular extensions ( ...

Vestibular Schwannoma: Microsurgery or Radiosurgery - IntechOpen

Three surgical approaches are available for VS removal: retrosigmoid, translabyrinthine, and middle fossa. The translabyrinthine and the retrosigmoid approaches ...

Vestibular schwannoma surgery via the retrosigmoid transmeatal ...

Aims of modern vestibular schwannoma surgery are complete tumor resection with functional facial nerve and hearing preservation, if possible.

Retrosigmoid Approach in the Removal of Vestibular Schwannoma.

Surgery performed via the retrosigmoid approach has been found to be advantageous in preserving hearing ability in patients with small-sized tumors. In the ...

Improved preservation of hearing and facial nerve function in ...

Improved preservation of hearing and facial nerve function in vestibular schwannoma surgery via the retrosigmoid approach in a series of 200 patients.

Clinical features, microsurgical treatment, and outcome of vestibular ...

Surgery was performed through a retrosigmoid craniotomy, with the patient positioned in the park bench position. Intraoperative monitoring of ...

Functional outcome and complications after the ... - BMC Neurology

The favorable postoperative function of FN was achieved in 47.6 to 92.8% of vestibular schwannoma patients trans-suboccipital retrosigmoid ...

How to position the patient? A meta-analysis of ... - Frontiers

To date, the retrosigmoid approach is the workhose for surgery of vestibular schwannomas in the cerebellopontine angle (22). Large tumors ( ...

Surgery for vestibular schwannomas: a systematic review of ...

The middle cranial fossa approach seems safest for hearing preservation in patients with smaller tumors and the retrosigmoid approach seems to be the most ...

Retrosigmoid Microsurgery of Giant Vestibular Schwannoma

The microsurgical removal of the lesion, with consequent decompression of the brainstem and of the surrounding neurovascular structures, is the ...