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...

Sixty-nine patients who had neurosurgical treatment for acoustic neuroma by one of two different techniques were studied with a view to determining the incidence of postoperative epilepsy. Fourty-five patients who had larger tumours underwent a combined translabyrinthine and transtentorial neurosurgical approach. For the others with smaller neuromas a translabyrinthine method was used. Only the...

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...

OBJECTIVE Rhinoliquorrhea is defined as a cerebrospinal fluid leakage from the nose. Our objective in this study is to determine the reduction of rhinoliquorrhea rates by Eustachian tube (ET) obliteration in the context of a translabyrinthine approach performed following vestibular schwannoma (VS) excision. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a prospective study achieved in a tertiary-care center w...

cavernous hemangioma is a rare benign tumor of the internal auditory canal (iac) of which fourteen cases have been reported so far. tinnitus and progressive sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) are the chief complaints of the patients. audiological and radiological planes, ctscan, and magnetic resonance image (mri) studies are helpful in diagnosis. the only choice of treatment is surgery with elec...