Affiliation:
1. Departments of Neurosurgery and
2. Neurotology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Abstract
The authors present the case of a 34-year-old patient with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF-2) who underwent a left translabyrinthine approach for resection a meningioma, vestibular schwannoma, and placement of an auditory brainstem implant (ABI). They review the preoperative workup, technical nuances of the surgery, and cadaveric dissections with anatomical diagrams, and provide a review on ABIs. The patient remained neurologically intact and had improvement in lip reading when using the ABI device in the postoperative period.
The video can be found here: https://stream.cadmore.media/r10.3171/2021.7.FOCVID2163
Publisher
Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG)
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