Cochlear Implantation in Vestibular Schwannoma: A Systematic Literature Review
Journal of Neurological Surgery. Part B, Skull Base
Tadokoro, K., Bartindale, M. R., et al. (2021).
Journal of Neurological Surgery. Part B, Skull Base, 82(6), 643-651.
This systematic review compares the hearing outcomes of ipsilateral cochlear implantation in patients with neurofibromatosis-related vestibular schwannoma and patients with sporadic vestibular schwannoma.
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To account for the variability of outcome-reporting methods, the authors categorized hearing outcomes into high performance, intermediate performance, low performance, environmental only, and no response. Overall, more postoperative hearing outcomes were placed in the higher- and intermediate-performance categories than lower performance, which indicated that select patients with neurofibromatosis-related vestibular schwannoma and sporadic vestibular schwannoma benefited from cochlear impant placement.
