Scoring System Assessing Risks of Growth in Sporadic Vestibular Schwannoma.

Background And Objectives: Surveillance studies offer sparse knowledge of predictors of future growth in sporadic vestibular schwannomas (VS).Our aim was identification of these risk factors. We propose a scoring system to estimate the risk of growth in sporadic vestibular schwannoma.

Long-term oncological outcomes after haemorrhagic apoplexy in pituitary adenoma managed operatively and non-operatively.

Introduction: Depending on severity of presentation, pituitary apoplexy can be managed with acute surgery or non-operatively. We aim to assess long-term tumour control, visual and endocrinological outcomes following pituitary apoplexy with special emphasis on patients treated non-operatively.

Methods: Multicentre retrospective cohort study.

Facial Nerve Function Outcome and Risk Factors in Resection of Large Cystic Vestibular Schwannomas.

 Cystic vestibular schwannomas (VS) in contrast to solid VS tend to have accelerated growth, larger volume, rapid/atypical presentation, lobulated/adherent surface, and unpredictable course of the cranial nerves. Cystic VS are surgically challenging, with worse clinical outcomes and higher rate of subtotal resection (STR).  We retrospectively analyzed postoperative outcomes of 125 patients with cystic VS, operated between years 2005 and 2019 in our center.

Shunt Testing In Vivo: Illustration of Partially Obstructed Ventricular Catheter by In-Growing Choroid Plexus.

Assessing shunt function in vivo presents a diagnostic challenge. Infusion studies can be a cost-effective and minimally invasive aid in the assessment of shunt function in vivo. We describe a case of a patient who after a foramen magnum decompression for type I Chiari malformation developed bilateral posterior fossa subdural hygromas and mild hydrocephalus, eventually necessitating insertion of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt.