TY - JOUR
T1 - Hearing improvement after tumor removal in a vestibular schwannoma patient with severe hearing loss
AU - Inoue, Y.
AU - Ogawa, K.
AU - Kanzaki, J.
PY - 2003/10/1
Y1 - 2003/10/1
N2 - We herein report on the hearing improvement obtained after tumor removal in a vestibular schwannoma patient with preoperative severe hearing loss and good otoacoustic emission. Hearing recovery after tumor removal is an uncommon occurrence. As a result, hearing preservation surgery is usually not performed for patients with severe hearing loss. However, patients with a good OAE seem to have a better chance to recover their hearing than those with a poor OAE, even if they have severe hearing loss. As a result, the cochlear function should be evaluated, especially regarding the OAE, before determining the indications for hearing preservation surgery.
AB - We herein report on the hearing improvement obtained after tumor removal in a vestibular schwannoma patient with preoperative severe hearing loss and good otoacoustic emission. Hearing recovery after tumor removal is an uncommon occurrence. As a result, hearing preservation surgery is usually not performed for patients with severe hearing loss. However, patients with a good OAE seem to have a better chance to recover their hearing than those with a poor OAE, even if they have severe hearing loss. As a result, the cochlear function should be evaluated, especially regarding the OAE, before determining the indications for hearing preservation surgery.
KW - Hearing recovery
KW - Otoacoustic emission
KW - Vestibular schwannoma
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U2 - 10.1007/s00405-003-0583-1
DO - 10.1007/s00405-003-0583-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 12736745
AN - SCOPUS:0242361078
SN - 0937-4477
VL - 260
SP - 487
EP - 489
JO - Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
JF - Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
IS - 9
ER -