Vestibular Schwannoma
Studies from A. Franzin and colleagues provide new data on vestibular schwannoma
Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, January 18th, 2010
"Due to technological advances in neuroradiology in recent years, incidental diagnoses of vestibular schwannomas (VSs) have increased. The aim of this study was to evaluate the hearing function after treatment with Gamma Knife surgery (GKS) for VSs in patients adequately selected with ''good'' or ''useful'' hearing before treatment and to assess the possible predictive factors for hearing function preservation," scientists in Milan, Italy report.
"Of all patients treated in the authors' hospital between 2001 and 2007, they retrospectively studied 50 patients with a unilateral VS in whom there was serviceable hearing (Gardner-Robertson [GR] Class I or II). Additional...
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