Gross-total versus near-total resection of large vestibular schwannomas. An institutional experience.

Objective: We will report our experience of the surgical treatment of large vestibular schwannomas (VSs).

Patients, Materials And Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of patients operated on for Koos grade IV VS between 2007 and 2015 at the Department of Neurosurgery, Emergency County Hospital, Târgu Mureş, Romania. We studied the general preoperatory clinical data, the preoperative and postoperative facial nerve status, preoperative hearing on the affected side, and any postoperative complications, including death.