Journal Reviews

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Is Gamma Knife Surgery effective for intracanalicular vestibular schwannomas?

8 January 2024 | | ENTA-ENT | otolaryngology, Otology, gamma knife surgery, hearing preservation, intracanalicular vestibular schwannoma, predictors of outcome, tumor volume preservation

Vestibular schwannomas (VSs) are rare, occurring in approximately five per 100,000 adults a year. In circa 8% of cases, the VS is contained within the internal auditory canal, i.e. intracanalicular (iVS). Although radiosurgery is a recognised treatment modality for VSs,...

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To scan or not to scan?

3 November 2022 | | ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus | functional magnetic resonance imaging, gray matter volume, magnetic resonance imaging, olfactory bulb, olfactory dysfunction, olfactory meningioma, white matter volume

This comprehensive review article seeks to establish how useful is MRI in the evaluation of patients with a history of smell loss or distortion. Interestingly, while some studies found the imaging unhelpful, one paper described found a 25% rate of...

Extrapolating lessons from vestibular schwannoma management

1 May 2017 | | head and neck, radiology, schwannoma, volume

This paper presents a delightfully simple and sensible hypothesis for the management of benign schwannomas in the head and neck region. They have taken the approach used for the management of vestibular schwannomas and used the same principles to assess...