Suboccipital Approach for Removal of Small Acoustic Neuromas.

Complications of the translabyrinthine approach for the removal of acoustic neuromas.

OBJECTIVE To report the complications that occurred during a large series of surgical procedures for the removal of acoustic neuromas using the translabyrinthine approach. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING Neuro-otology practice with academic affiliation. Procedures were performed at either a university medical center or a community hospital in conjunction with a neurosurgery team. P...

Acoustic Neuromas.

Patients with acoustic neuromas have several treatment options that include observation, surgical resection, stereotactic radiosurgery, and fractionated radiotherapy. Resection is indicated for patients with larger tumors that have caused major neurologic deficits from brain compression. Surgeons perform stereotactic radiosurgery as the main alternative to acoustic tumor resection with the goal...

Air-CT cisternography and canalography for small acoustic neuromas.

Disenchantment with the limitations, and in some cases the morbidity, of currently used radiologic techniques for the demonstration or exclusion of small acoustic neuromas prompted development of an examination using small amounts of intrathecal air and computed tomography (CT). A prospective study was designed to evaluate air CT cisternography/canalography, wherein patients with the clinical s...

Bilateral 'acoustic' neuromas.

Cystic acoustic neuromas.

Predominantly cystic acoustic neuromas are rare and they usually present with clinical and radiological features different from their more common solid counterparts. Two cases of cystic acoustic neuromas are reported here.