Is the intra-operative morphology of the cochlear nerve a good predictor of the results of simultaneous ipsilateral cochlear implantation in vestibular schwannoma surgery?
J Laryngol Otol
; 137(6): 637-642, 2023 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
There are currently no guidelines for simultaneous vestibular schwannoma surgery and cochlear implantation. This paper therefore provides our experience and our results regarding predictive parameters of good hearing.METHODS:
Morphological appearance of the cochlear nerve after tumour resection was used as the main criterion for implantation in the case series. Patients were then divided into responders and non-responders to cochlear implantation, and potential outcome predicting factors were evaluated in the two groups.RESULTS:
Nine of the 16 patients showed a response to cochlear implantation. Pre-surgery serviceable hearing was significantly more common in the responder group, while no difference was found in the two groups for other variables.CONCLUSION:
This study highlights how the morphological appearance of the cochlear nerve can be useful to predict the hearing outcome and indicates that satisfactory hearing results are closely related to pre-surgery serviceable hearing.Palabras clave
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Neuroma Acústico
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Implantación Coclear
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Pérdida Auditiva Sensorineural
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Humans
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2023
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