Hearing preservation: a realistic goal in surgical removal of cerebellopontine angle tumors.
Complete excision of small (less than or equal to 2 cm) cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumors as well as preservation of hearing is possible. In a series of 28 patients with serviceable hearing and small tumors, one in three (32%) had hearing preserved. Our experience with tumors of this size (N = 54) suggests no significant difference in morbidity whether the approach used is suboccipital (prone) as in attempted hearing preservation, or translabyrinthine when hearing is not a factor.
D000368:Aged; D001299:Audiometry; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D002530:Cerebellopontine Angle; D004814:Epidermal Cyst / Q000601:surgery; D005154:Facial Nerve; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000601:surgery*; D008722:Methods; D009455:Neurofibroma / Q000601:surgery; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications