Large Vestibular Schwannoma: A Two-Stage Surgery

Treatment of large vestibular schwannoma (VS) has historically centered on total resection of the lesion. Staged surgery has been used for VS that is highly vascularized, unexpected events during surgery, and thinned and stretched facial nerve with serious adherence causing difficult dissection. We...

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Autores principales: de Melo Junior, José Orlando, Landeiro, José Alberto, Leal da Silveira, Roberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Neurosurgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9908090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36779147
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33552
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description Treatment of large vestibular schwannoma (VS) has historically centered on total resection of the lesion. Staged surgery has been used for VS that is highly vascularized, unexpected events during surgery, and thinned and stretched facial nerve with serious adherence causing difficult dissection. We present a case of a patient with a large VS resected through a two-stage surgery through the same retrosigmoid craniotomy.
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spelling pubmed-99080902023-02-10 Large Vestibular Schwannoma: A Two-Stage Surgery de Melo Junior, José Orlando Landeiro, José Alberto Leal da Silveira, Roberto Cureus Neurosurgery Treatment of large vestibular schwannoma (VS) has historically centered on total resection of the lesion. Staged surgery has been used for VS that is highly vascularized, unexpected events during surgery, and thinned and stretched facial nerve with serious adherence causing difficult dissection. We present a case of a patient with a large VS resected through a two-stage surgery through the same retrosigmoid craniotomy. Cureus 2023-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9908090/ /pubmed/36779147 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33552 Text en Copyright © 2023, de Melo Junior et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Large Vestibular Schwannoma: A Two-Stage Surgery
title Large Vestibular Schwannoma: A Two-Stage Surgery
title_full Large Vestibular Schwannoma: A Two-Stage Surgery
title_fullStr Large Vestibular Schwannoma: A Two-Stage Surgery
title_full_unstemmed Large Vestibular Schwannoma: A Two-Stage Surgery
title_short Large Vestibular Schwannoma: A Two-Stage Surgery
title_sort large vestibular schwannoma: a two-stage surgery
topic Neurosurgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9908090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36779147
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33552
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