title: Incidence of postoperative epilepsy after a transtentorial approach to acoustic nerve tumours.
abstract: 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 combined approach was associated with postoperative epilepsy, and it occurred in 22% of the patients. Epilepsy was associated with temporal love trauma during surgery.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004388:Dura Mater; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000293:injuries; D013997:Time Factors; D000159:Vestibulocochlear Nerve