Surgery of acoustic tumors by the retro-sigmoid route. a personal technique. Results on audition and the facial nerve (61 cases)
Sterkers, J.M.; Corlieu, P.; Hamann, K.F.; Sterkers, O.
Annales d'Oto-Laryngologie et de Chirurgie Cervico Faciale Bulletin de la Societe d'Oto-Laryngologie des Hopitaux de Paris 97(7-8): 519-532
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-438X PMID: 7469283 Document Number: 167819
In the surgery of acoustic tumors it is possible to preserve audition and, indeed, imperative, if the neuroma is bilateral. In this work, we describe our technique by the retro-sigmoid route which allowed us to preserve hearing in 36% of cases and facial motor movements in 82% of cases (61 operations).