2002
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-002-0024-2
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Acoustic neuromas

Abstract: Patients with acoustic neuromas have several treatment options that include observation, surgical resection, stereotactic radiosurgery, and fractionated radiotherapy. Resection is indicated for patients with larger tumors that have caused major neurologic deficits from brain compression. Surgeons perform stereotactic radiosurgery as the main alternative to acoustic tumor resection with the goals of preserved neurologic function and prevention of tumor growth. The long-term outcomes of radiosurgery, particularl… Show more

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“…11 The ability to rehabilitate functional hearing in these patients results in significant improvement in quality of life. 19 Currently, there are 3 options for auditory rehabilitation for patients with NF2: hearing aids, ABIs, and cochlear implants. Each of these options has significant advantages and disadvantages for auditory rehabilitation of the patient with NF2, and ideally may represent a continuum of treatment for these individuals.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…11 The ability to rehabilitate functional hearing in these patients results in significant improvement in quality of life. 19 Currently, there are 3 options for auditory rehabilitation for patients with NF2: hearing aids, ABIs, and cochlear implants. Each of these options has significant advantages and disadvantages for auditory rehabilitation of the patient with NF2, and ideally may represent a continuum of treatment for these individuals.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Previous studies have shown that the results of gamma knife radiosurgery in the treatment of acoustic neurinomas are, in terms of hearing preservation, generally com-parable to or better than those obtained after microsurgery [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] and, when the series were large, a significant correlation was found between hearing loss and tumor size or treatment dose. 14,15,17 Nevertheless, it is still not clear whether the hearing loss after radiosurgery is secondary to cochlear irradiation or to the exacerbation of the acoustic neuropathy.…”
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confidence: 94%
“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] In the case of small tumors, it provides a good local control rate and a low incidence of complications that are comparable to or better than those observed in microsurgical series. [11][12][13] However, few studies are available concerning the neuro-otological effects of gamma knife radiosurgery in the treatment of acoustic neurinomas, [14][15][16][17][18] and to our knowledge, no previous study has simultaneously investigated the effects of radiosurgery on hearing threshold and changes in the neurophysiological measures of nervous transmission and cochlear function.…”
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