The enlarged middle cranial fossa approach for surgery of the temporal bone and of the cerebellopontine angle.

Arch Otorhinolaryngol

Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Federal Republic of Germany.

Published: January 1990

Due to the fact that the temporal bone has broad segments of bone anterior to and behind the internal auditory canal which are empty of functionally important structures, a broad exposure of the cerebellopontine angle may be obtained from above. This technique is adequate for the management of acoustic neurinomas up to 3 cm in diameter. A low postoperative morbidity and a high percentage of hearing preservation with total tumor removal were obtained in a series of 190 cases. This report underlines the advantages of the procedure and points to various other indications.

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