OBJECT During the past decades, in small-to-medium size vestibular schwannomas, Gamma Knife surgery (GKS) has become a reliable therapeutic option because of either excellent local tumor control or minimal morbidity, with cranial neuropathy becoming increasingly rare. Although still insufficiently analyzed in larger cohorts of patients with long-term follow-ups, adequate chances of hearing pres...

OBJECTIVES To measure patient satisfaction and correlate to hearing results in partially deaf patients, after hearing preservation cochlear implant surgery with hybrid hearing strategy, and to evaluate the stability of residual low-frequency hearing (LFH) over time. DESIGN A patient satisfaction survey and a retrospective, 2-year follow-up journal study. Nineteen partially deaf patients inten...

OBJECTIVE To estimate a residual hearing preservation in cochlear implant patients in short-, and long-term observation. MATERIAL AND METHODS A group of 40 subjects with preserved residual hearing were included to this study. In all of them cochlear implant was provided due to a neurosensonal hearing loss. In all subjects hearing was tested using traditional audiological test battery. Cochlea...

OBJECTIVE To determine the long-term hearing preservation rate for spontaneous vestibular schwannoma treated by primary radiotherapy. DATA SOURCES The MEDLINE/PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Reviews, and EMBASE databases were searched using a comprehensive Boolean keyword search developed in conjunction with a scientific librarian. English language papers published from 2000 to 2016 were eva...

eurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is a rare disease, characerized by a mutation in the long arm of chromosome 2 that leads to the development of bilateral vestibular chwannomas (VS) in approximately 90% of patients with this yndrome.1--4 The control of tumor growth and hearing preservation are he cornerstones of its treatment, which can be carried out y surgery or radiotherapy, considering the size...

OBJECTIVE Following cholesteatoma surgery, effective long-term hearing preservation in children is difficult and is not typically expected. Hence, long-term data on hearing outcomes are lacking. The aim of this study was to analyze long-term hearing outcomes in children following cholesteatoma surgery. METHODS For this study, 49 ears in 47 children (≤16 years) with acquired cholesteatomas fol...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to evaluate the long-term hearing during "wait and scan" management of vestibular schwannomas. SUBJECTS During a 33-year period, from 1976 to 2008, 1,144 patients with vestibular schwannoma were allocated to observation by the wait and scan policy, with annual magnetic resonance imaging and audiologic examination. Two complete pure-tone and speech di...