| Literature DB >> 34812915 |
Katharina Schaumann1, A Albrecht2, B Turowski3, C Hoffmann4, J F Cornelius4, J Schipper2.
Abstract
The data of 86 patients with retrosigmoid microsurgical resection of vestibular schwannoma in tumor stage Koos II-IV were evaluated. In more than two thirds of the cases it was shown that the cochlear nerve followed the facial nerve, which is easily identified by electroneurography, in recurrent similar patterns in the region of the internal auditory canal. Starting from the fundus, this facilitated early identification and thus preservation of continuity of the cochlear nerve in the course of the internal auditory canal. This was of particular importance when safe functional preservation could not be guaranteed due to tumor size or formation despite intraoperative derivation of somatosenoric potentials, but when the possibility of subsequent hearing rehabilitation with a cochlear implant should be granted. Preoperative MRI sequences gave an indication of the possible nerve courses in some cases, but intraoperative imaging in the internal auditory canal was superior to MRI.Entities:
Keywords: Acoustic neuroma; Auditory rehabilitation; BERA (Brainstem evoked response audiometry); Cochlear implant; Koos classification
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Year: 2021 PMID: 34812915 PMCID: PMC9160153 DOI: 10.1007/s00106-021-01116-y
Source DB: PubMed Journal: HNO ISSN: 0017-6192 Impact factor: 1.330





| Tumorgröße nach Koos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koos I | Koos II | Koos III | Koos IV | |
| Patienten | – | 22 | 29 | 35 |
| Patienten | – | – | 6 | 5 | 75 |
| Patienten | – | – | 3 | 1 | 82 |


| Fazialisfunktion nach House-Brackmann | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB I | HB II | HB III | HB IV | HB V | HB VI | |
| Patienten | 81 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |