S Tüpker, N Ay, L U Scholtz, H B Gehl, V F Mautner, P Goon, H Sudhoff, I Todt
OBJECTIVE: The vestibular schwannoma incidence rate is approximately 4.2 per 100,000/year. Thus far, about 700,000 cochlear implantations have been performed worldwide; therefore, the occurrence of vestibular schwannoma postcochlear implantations can be assumed to be infrequent. Recent developments allow safe observation and surveillance of the implanted-side internal auditory canal (IAC) and cochlea by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), even after cochlear implantation. Patients . A 71-year-old woman with sudden hearing loss and a contralateral vestibular schwannoma without clinical and genetic signs of neurofibromatosis type II...
2022: Case Reports in Otolaryngology