Surgical treatment of vestibular schwannoma. Review of 420 cases.

Introduction And Objectives: Vestibular schwannoma is the most frequent cerebellopontine angle tumor. The aim of our study is to reflect our experience in the surgical treatment of this tumor

Material And Methods: Retrospective study of 420 vestibular schwannomas operated in our hospital between 1994-2014. We include tumor size, preoperative hearing, surgical approaches, definitive facial and hearing functional results, and complications due to surgery.

Head and neck paragangliomas: Experience in 126 patients with 162 tumours.

Introduction: Head and neck paragangliomas are rare tumours of a neuroendocrine nature. The aim of this study was to show our experience in the management of these kind of tumours.

Methods: This was a retrospective study of head and neck paragangliomas diagnosed between 1978 and 2014.

Conservative management of vestibular schwannoma.

Introduction: Vestibular schwannoma (VS) is a benign, slow-growing tumour originating in the 8th cranial nerve. The treatment includes microsurgery, stereotactic radiotherapy and conservative management of tumours with periodic radiological tests.

Methods: This was a retrospective study of patients with VS following conservative management in a tertiary hospital between 1993 and 2013.