OBJECTIVE We investigated the potential of galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) to quantify lateralised asymmetry of the vestibulospinal pathways by measuring balance responses to monaural GVS in 10 subjects with vestibular schwannoma and 22 healthy control subjects. METHODS Subjects standing without vision were stimulated with 3 s, 1 mA direct current stimuli delivered monaurally. The mean ...

FEASIBILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF RETROSIGMOID APPROACH IN VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA SURGERYPurpose: To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of lateral suboccipital retrosigmoid approach in surgical management vestibular schwannoma.Materials Methods: We conducted a prospective hospital-based case series on 356 patients during period from May 2018 to 2020 collaboration with neurosurgery departmen...

Development of more sophisticated magnetic resonance imaging scans, the chances of finding asymptomatic patients with vestibular schwannomas as with other intracranial pathologies are increasing. Gamma Knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas has been documented as an efficient and safe procedure based on the treatments in worldwide literature. Preservation of hearing, but not tinnitus, is...

A vestibular schwannoma, often termed an acoustic neuroma, is a type of benign primary intracranial tumor of the myelin-forming cells of the vestibulocochlear nerve. The typical clinical presentation often includes ipsilateral sensorineural hearing loss/deafness, vertigo and tinnitus. In the present study, the case of a young male patient who presented with recurrent unilateral facial palsy wit...

Sporadic vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma) is a benign tumor arising from cochleovestibular nerve. Nowadays, various specialties and medical centers are treating this disease, and the multidisciplinary collaboration is the trend. In an effort to promote a uniform standard for reporting clinical results, even for treatment indications, the mainly controversies were posed and discussed dur...

Stereotactic radiosurgery undoubtedly represents an important therapeutic procedure for various intracranial pathologies, especially tumours, although they are not entirely complication-free. Radiosurgery have been considered a good management strategy for the majority of small-to-medium size vestibular schwannomas. The authors describe a case of high-grade glioma associated with a previous rad...

Cerebellopontine angle tumors including schwannoma or meningioma are located around the vestibular nerve. In case of surgical removal, intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring (IONM) modality such as brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) could detect its neurologic function. We demonstrate 2 cases cerebellopontine surgery using BAEP an IONM modality. And we also suggest how to deal with ...