The Fully Endoscopic Acoustic Neuroma Surgery.

Authors :: Marchioni D
Carner M
Rubini A
Nogueira JF
Masotto B
Alicandri-Ciufelli M
Presutti L
Source :: Otolaryngologic clinics of North America [Otolaryngol Clin North Am] 2016 Oct; Vol. 49 (5), pp. 1227-36.
Publication Year :: 2016
Abstract: Surgical approaches to vestibular schwannomas (VS) are widely known and extensively recorded. For the first time, an exclusive endoscopic approach to the internal acoustic canal (IAC) was described and used to safely remove a cochlear schwannoma involving IAC in March 2012. The aim of this article was to summarize indications and technique to treat intracanalicular VS by transcanal/transpromontorial endoscopic approach. Because management of intracanalicular VSs is complex and strongly debated, this kind of therapeutic option in the appropriate and selected cases could modify classic concepts of the management of this pathology.<br /> (Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)