Abstract:The results of 50 cases of vestibular schwannoma surgery with hearing preservation performed by the retrosigmoid approach at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, during a 10-year period are presented. The hearing-preservation rate, using audiometric criteria set by others as "serviceable hearing" (Wade PJ, House W. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1984;92:1184-93; Silverstein H, et al. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1986;95:285-91; Cohen NL, et al. Am J Otol 1993;14:423-33) was 8% (4 of 50 cases). When the more stringent … Show more
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