Neuro-otological Findings After Radiosurgery for Acoustic Neurinomas

Long-Term Outcome of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannoma

“…8 Unfortunately, the long-term effects of treatment with GKRS alone in our findings showed that 4% of patients developed trigeminal neuropathy, consistent with previous reports. 22,23 Our study did not show trigeminal neuropathy in any patient when GKRS was used as an adjuvant therapy; other reports suggested that microsurgery causes significant trigeminal neuropathy. 8,24 Although there was no significant improvement of tinnitus and vertigo after GKRS treatment compared with pretreatment, there was a tendency for those symptoms to reduce.…”

Tomotherapy for neurofibromatosis Type 2: case report and review of the literature

“…Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is associated with an increased toxicity to the facial and trigeminal nerves, as compared with FSRT. With FSRT, rates of treatment-related toxicity to the facial nerve of 0-3% can be found in the literature [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. With microsurgery, the rate of cranial nerve toxicity depends strongly on the size of the vestibular schwannoma.…”

Quality of life following microsurgery, radiosurgery and conservative management for unilateral vestibular schwannoma

“…Another limitation of the study is the small sample size of the radiosurgery group. In addition, the short length of follow‐up of our radiosurgical patients may have biased the findings, as the full radiobiological effects of treatment may not have become apparent 17,61 . Further research involving a larger population of radiosurgical patients, followed up over a prolonged interval, is necessary to confirm the effects of radiation treatment on quality of life.…”