INTRODUCTION To report our experience with a large series of surgical procedures for removal of cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumors using different approaches. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a retrospective analysis of 50 patients (mean age, 49 years) with CPA tumors (predominantly acoustic neuroma) who underwent surgical removal using appropriate techniques (principally a translabyrinthine a...

INTRODUCTION Reconstruction of cranial defects is an essential component of skull base surgery as it aids in restoring functionality, providing coverage of intradural structures, and achieving optimal cosmesis. In acoustic neuroma surgery, tumor removal and subsequent reconstruction of the skull base defect are equally important elements. All three approaches utilized in acoustic neuroma surger...

Surgical approaches to the inner ear and internal auditory canal (IAC) are widely known and extensively recorded. The most popular can be classified as retrosigmoid, transmastoid-translabyrinthine, and middle cranial fossa approaches. For the first time, an exclusive endoscopic approach to the IAC is described here, used to remove a cochlear schwannoma involving both the IAC and labyrinth. The ...

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...