Morten Lund-Johansen
Morten Lund-Johansen
Over the last two decades, health-related quality of life (QOL) in vestibular schwannoma patients has gained increasing attention among caretakers, and patient-reported outcomes are frequently included in clinical studies, as a secondary or...
Ramin A Morshed,Tarun Arora,Philip V Theodospoulos
Ramin A Morshed
Vestibular schwannomas are low-grade tumors of the eighth cranial nerve that lead to hearing loss, vestibular dysfunction, and eventual brainstem compression if significant growth occurs. Management of these tumors includes observation, rad...
Ahmed Helal,Mathew L Carlson,Michael J Link
Ahmed Helal
The elderly population has been expanding and is expected to continue to do so in the future. This, together with advances in work-up for SNHL, led to an increase in the incidence of VS, with smaller tumor sizes and older ages at the time o...
Michel Kalamarides,Olivier Sterkers,Daniele Bernardeschi et al.
Michel Kalamarides et al.
Defined by the presence of bilateral vestibular schwannomas (VS) in the great majority of cases, NF2 is a complex genetic disease with unpredictable behavior. Since the 1980s, VS surgery outcomes have dramatically improved, and large VS wer...
Cathal John Hannan,Andrew King
Cathal John Hannan
Over the last 20 years, there has been a marked shift from active intervention to radiologic observation in the management of vestibular schwannomas, prompted by our understanding that a substantial proportion of these tumors do not demonst...
Gillian A Whitfield,Neil G Burnet
Gillian A Whitfield
This chapter discusses the treatment of vestibular schwannoma using proton beam therapy (PBT), which has been used in stereotactic radiosurgery, hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy, and fully fractionated radiotherapy. Using PBT, alm...
Fiona Wilson,Arjun Sahgal,Zain Husain et al.
Fiona Wilson et al.
Radiotherapy (RT) has become an increasingly attractive treatment for vestibular schwannomas (VS) in the last 30 years. Fractionated radiotherapy (FRT) for VS typically involves delivering a dose of 2Gy or less daily over the course of seve...
Maleeha Ahmad,David Y A Dadey,Steven D Chang et al.
Maleeha Ahmad et al.
Vestibular schwannomas, though typically benign, can often be managed through several options including observation/surveillance, microsurgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, and fractionated radiotherapy. With the advent of linear accelerator ...
Douglas Kondziolka,John G Golfinos
Douglas Kondziolka
Gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery is one of the most common procedures performed to manage patients with vestibular schwannoma. With a history that spans over 40 years, there has been continued evolution in radiosurgery technique and un...
Joseph Sebastian
Joseph Sebastian
Anesthesia for the resection of vestibular schwannomas poses unique challenges; operative times are long, typically between 8 and 12h, during which there are varying levels of surgical stimulation. Close attention to positioning is essentia...