OBJECTIVE To evaluate facial impairment and disability with respect to quality of life in patients with facial paresis after vestibular schwannoma surgery. DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. SETTING Academic, tertiary care hospital. PATIENTS All consecutive patients during a 5-year period who underwent vestibular schwannoma surgery. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The validated, patient-...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To evaluate the results of local control and complications in the treatment of vestibular schwannoma treated with radiation. METHODS A retrospective study of 194 patients diagnosed with vestibular schwannoma, treated consecutively with radiation (either stereotactic radiosurgery or fractionated radiotherapy) from 1997 to 2012. We analyze the local control of tumors...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is currently the 'gold-standard' investigation in patients with a unilateral sensorineural hearing loss. The procedure, however, is expensive and of limited availability. Instead, such patients often undergo a series of audiovestibular tests and computed tomography in an attempt to exclude or diagnose a vestibular schwannoma. We describe seven cases of unilatera...

AIM OF THE STUDY One of the alternative methods of surgical treatment of vestibular schwannoma is Gamma Knife radiosurgery. The purpose of this metaanalysis was to analyze the progress in treatment of vestibular schwannoma using Gamma Knife radiosurgery based on data in the literature of the last five years. MATERIAL AND METHODS In the collected English-language literature from the years 2007...

CONCLUSIONS The degree of caloric weakness before surgery influences faster or slower recovery of patients undergoing vestibular schwannoma surgery. The Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) is a good index to show the recovery of patients as it relates directly to an improvement or not of the subjective visual vertical (SVV). OBJECTIVE To evaluate the process of recovery of patients as measured...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Outcome evaluation in clinical oncology is conventionally based on long-term volumetric changes in the tumor size. The purpose of this study was to prospectively investigate the usefulness of fDMs in incorporating anisotropic diffusion in the evaluation of early response after radiosurgery in patients with vestibular schwannoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS The MD, FA, and IVD...

OBJECTIVE To review the incidence of cerebrospinal fluid leak after vestibular schwannoma removal reported in the literature. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE and PubMed literature search using the terms "acoustic neuroma" or "vestibular schwannoma," and "cerebrospinal fluid leak" or "cerebrospinal fluid fistula" covering the period from 1985 to the present in the English language literature. A review of...

The prognostic significance of the variety of changes in the internal auditory meatus (IAM) caused by vestibular schwannoma was retrospectively analyzed in 69 consecutive patients with vestibular schwannoma. Preoperative bone-window computed tomography was used to classify IAM changes into extensive destruction (17%), widening (46%), and normal IAM (36%). Extensive destruction (47 +/- 19 years)...

OBJECTIVE Surgery for vestibular schwannoma may reduce patients' quality of life, but the effect of hearing preservation on this process is not fully understood. Our aim was to determine whether hearing preservation makes a difference to patients' quality of life in this clinical setting. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective questionnaire and cross-sectional survey. METHODS The study included 104 con...