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Prognostic Factors of Long-Term Hearing Preservation in Small and Medium-Sized Vestibular Schwannomas After Microsurgery. 2019

Zirong Huo, and Jianqing Chen, and Zhaoyan Wang, and Zhihua Zhang, and Hao Wu

Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital.

The authors evaluated the long-term hearing outcomes of patients with vestibular schwannoma (VS) to explore appropriate surgical treatment. Retrospective study. Tertiary referral center. A total of 138 patients diagnosed with small and medium-sized VS with serviceable hearing from January 2006 to December 2015. All patients underwent microsurgery via retrosigmoid (RSA) or middle cranial fossa approach (MFA) and were followed up for over 2 years. Pre- and postoperative hearing, including pure tone audiometry, speech discrimination score, and auditory brainstem response (ABR), were analyzed. The mean tumor size and volume were 16.6 ± 3.4 mm and 1711.8 ± 918.5 mm, respectively. Preoperative hearing levels were Class A in 42, Class B in 67, and Class C in 29 patients. Patients with a tumor from the superior vestibular nerve (SVN) had better hearing at diagnosis. Postoperative hearing levels were Class A, B, C, and D for 28, 17, 32, and 61 patients. Hearing outcomes were significantly better in patients with normal intraoperative I wave on ABR. Hearing loss within 6 months had a positive effect on postoperative hearing. Better preoperative hearing and tumors from SVN were correlated with better postoperative hearing outcomes. Tumor size, cystic variation, or extension to the fundus of internal auditory canal had no influence on hearing preservation. Better preoperative hearing, shorter hearing loss period, tumors from SVN, and normal intraoperative I wave are prognostic factors for serviceable hearing. RSA and MFA are effective and safe for tumor removal and hearing preservation.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D008866	Microsurgery	The performance of surgical procedures with the aid of a microscope.
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D009464	Neuroma, Acoustic	A benign SCHWANNOMA of the eighth cranial nerve (VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE), mostly arising from the vestibular branch (VESTIBULAR NERVE) during the fifth or sixth decade of life. Clinical manifestations include HEARING LOSS; HEADACHE; VERTIGO; TINNITUS; and FACIAL PAIN. Bilateral acoustic neuromas are associated with NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p673)	Acoustic Neuroma,Melanocytic Vestibular Schwannoma,Schwannoma, Acoustic,Schwannoma, Vestibular,Acoustic Neuroma, Cerebellopontine Angle,Acoustic Tumor,Angle Tumor,Cerebellopontine Angle Acoustic Neuroma,Cerebellopontine Angle Tumor,Neurilemmoma, Acoustic,Neurilemoma, Acoustic,Neurinoma of the Acoustic Nerve,Neurinoma, Acoustic,Neuroma, Acoustic, Unilateral,Vestibular Schwannoma,Acoustic Neurilemmoma,Acoustic Neurilemmomas,Acoustic Neurilemoma,Acoustic Neurilemomas,Acoustic Neurinoma,Acoustic Neurinomas,Acoustic Neuromas,Acoustic Schwannoma,Acoustic Schwannomas,Acoustic Tumors,Angle Tumor, Cerebellopontine,Angle Tumors,Angle Tumors, Cerebellopontine,Cerebellopontine Angle Tumors,Melanocytic Vestibular Schwannomas,Neurilemmomas, Acoustic,Neurilemomas, Acoustic,Neurinomas, Acoustic,Neuromas, Acoustic,Schwannoma, Melanocytic Vestibular,Schwannomas, Acoustic,Schwannomas, Melanocytic Vestibular,Schwannomas, Vestibular,Tumor, Acoustic,Tumor, Angle,Tumor, Cerebellopontine Angle,Tumors, Acoustic,Tumors, Angle,Tumors, Cerebellopontine Angle,Vestibular Schwannoma, Melanocytic,Vestibular Schwannomas,Vestibular Schwannomas, Melanocytic
D011183	Postoperative Complications	Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.	Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D011379	Prognosis	A prediction of the probable outcome of a disease based on a individual's condition and the usual course of the disease as seen in similar situations.	Prognostic Factor,Prognostic Factors,Factor, Prognostic,Factors, Prognostic,Prognoses
D005260	Female		Females
D006309	Hearing	The ability or act of sensing and transducing ACOUSTIC STIMULATION to the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. It is also called audition.	Audition
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293	Adolescent	A person 13 to 18 years of age.	Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths

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