Luciano Mastronardi, Martin Sames, Alberto Campione, Petr Vachata, Carlo Giacobbo Scavo, Jiri Cee, Fabio Boccacci, Tomas Radovnicky
INTRODUCTION: The aim of our study was to study the association between end-of-surgery facial nerve stimulation threshold and extent of tumor resection in case of grade IV vestibular schwannomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Grade IV VSs represent a surgical challenge as a risk/benefit ratio must be considered in balancing a satisfactory extent of resection against a good postoperative functional outcome. We reviewed a cumulative series of 57 patients with large/giant VSs who were operated on by retrosigmoid approach in the period from 2008 to 2018 in two European centers, namely San Filippo Neri Hospital, Rome, Italy and Masaryk Hospital, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic...
August 17, 2023: British Journal of Neurosurgery