title: Perioperative complications after translabyrinthine removal of large or giant vestibular schwannoma: Outcomes for 123 patients.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Large vestibular schwannomas are benign but dangerous tumors. The translabyrinthine approach allows the surgeon to limit vital and functional complications due to the disease itself or to its surgical removal.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Morbi-mortality study focused on large vestibular schwannoma surgically treated by translabyrinthine removal.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a retrospective review of prospectively collected data in a series of 123 patients who underwent translabyrinthine removal of a large vestibular schwannoma (>4 cm in the cerebellopontine angle, stage IV). All surgical and medical complications and facial function were reviewed, with a 1-year follow-up.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mortality during the first year was 0.8% (one case of infarct of the anterior inferior cerebellar artery, fatal after 8 months). In all, 4.9% of patients underwent a second surgery (for delayed hemorrhage or cerebrospinal fluid leak) during the first months after removal of a large vestibular schwannoma; 3.2% of patients experienced definitive neurologic complications (one death, one cerebellar disturbance, and two cases of 10th cranial nerve palsy).
authors.affiliation: Département d'Otologie et d'Otoneurochirurgie, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France. anne.charpiot@chru-strasbourg.fr
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Charpiot
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tringali
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zaouche
authors.forename: Chantal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ferber-Viart
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dubreuil
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000209:etiology; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000473:pathology; D065634:Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak; D002559:Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea / Q000209:etiology; D007758:Ear, Inner / Q000601:surgery*; D004487:Edema / Q000209:etiology; D004576:Electromyography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000209:etiology; D005154:Facial Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006408:Hematoma, Subdural / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008581:Meningitis / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013506:Otologic Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000401:mortality*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome