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Global incidence of sporadic vestibular schwannoma

3 November 2022 | | ENTA-Skull Base Surgery | acoustic neuroma, epidemiology, incidence, population-based studies, prevalence, review, sporadic, unilateral, vestibular schwannoma

The incidence rate of sporadic vestibular schwannoma (VS) has commonly been quoted as one in 100,000. However, since the advent of screening for asymmetrical hearing loss and increased availability of modern MRI scanning, more recent studies have shown the incidence...