ArticleActa neurochirurgica2024
Quality of life in patients after vestibular schwannoma surgery.
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- The fundal cerebrospinal fluid cap in vestibular schwannoma surgery: a predictor of outcome after the retrosigmoid approach.Neurosurgical review · 2026Pooled it
- Systematic review of disease-specific quality of life in patients with sporadic vestibular schwannoma.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2025Pooled it
- Radicality and revision surgery in vestibular schwannoma treatment: balancing optimal outcomes with unavoidable necessity.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Article
- No surgery, but headache exists? Quality of life with vestibular schwannoma.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Article
- Treatment strategies and survival outcomes of vestibular schwannoma: a comparative study based on Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database.Translational cancer research · 2026Article
- Quantitative facial analysis using emotrics in patients undergoing vestibular schwannoma surgery.Acta neurochirurgica · 2026Article
- Temporal patterns of facial nerve palsy after microsurgical resection of vestibular schwannoma: immediate vs. delayed onset, management, and outcomes.Neurosurgical review · 2026Article
- Vestibular schwannoma microsurgery peculiarities for better functional outcome and result comparison.Brain & spine · 2026Article
- Functional Outcomes and Self-Reported Quality of Life in Patients with Facial Nerve Impairment Following Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Vestibular Schwannoma and Tinnitus: A Systematic Review of Microsurgery Compared to Gamma Knife Radiosurgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
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aimTo evaluate the most important factors of quality of life in patients after vestibular schwannoma surgery. MATERIALS AND
methodsPatients with unilateral sporadic occurrence of vestibular schwannoma who underwent surgery via suboccipital-retrosigmoid approach were included in the prospective study (2018-2021). Patients after previous Leksell gamma knife irradiation (or other methods of stereotactic radiosurgery) were excluded. Quality of life was assessed using 10 validated questionnaires that were distributed preoperatively, 3 months and 1 year after the surgery.
resultsA total of 76 patients were included in the study, complete data were analysed in 43 of them (response rate 57%). Grade III and IV represented up to 70% of all tumors. Patients with larger tumors had a significantly higher risk of postoperative facial nerve paresis, liquorrhea and lower probability of hearing preservation. Patients with smaller tumors and those, who suffered from headaches before surgery had more frequent and severe headaches after surgery. Postoperative headaches were associated with higher incidence of anxiety and tinnitus. More frequent anxiety was also identified in patients with preoperative serviceable hearing who became deaf after surgery. Nevertheless, tinnitus and hearing impairment appeared to have less impact on overall quality of life compared to headaches and facial nerve function.
conclusionAccording to our results, tumor size, postoperative function of the facial nerve and occurrence of postoperative headaches had the greatest influence on the overall postoperative quality of life in patients after vestibular schwannoma surgery.
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