Hearing Preservation and Facial Nerve Outcomes in Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery: Results Using the Middle Cranial Fossa Approach

Abstract

By achieving excellent exposure and using meticulous microsurgical technique, it is possible to resect small vestibular schwannomas via the middle fossa approach, with preservation of hearing at excellent or preoperative levels in the majority of patients, with excellent or satisfactory facial nerve outcomes in 96% of patients.