Abstract
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.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Otorhinolaryngology,General Medicine
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