Abstract:INTRODUCTION
Over the past two decades, the treatment of small-to-medium (< 3cm) sporadic vestibular schwannomas (VS) has experienced a definite shift to stereotactic radiosurgery vis-a-vis microsurgery. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of VS patients primarily treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) or microsurgery (MS), with particular attention to hearing preservation outcomes (HPO), tumor control (TC), and facial nerve dysfunction (FND). Materials and
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