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01-07-2014 | Otology

Quality of life after microsurgery for vestibular schwannoma via the middle cranial fossa approach

Authors: Matthias Scheich, Christian Ginzkey, Edith Reuter, Wilma Harnisch, Desiree Ehrmann, Rudolf Hagen

Published in: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology | Issue 7/2014

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyse the quality of life (QOL) of patients who had undergone microsurgery for vestibular schwannomas (VS). A questionnaire was sent to 117 consecutive patients who had been operated on using the middle cranial fossa (MCF) approach between October 2005 and June 2011. The response rate was 91/117 (78 %) of which 86 were suitable for analysis. The questionnaire consisted of the Short Form-36 (SF-36) Health Survey including a self-designed, disease-specific section. Demographic data, tumour size, hearing status and facial nerve function were extracted from our VS database. Patients scored significantly lower in seven of the eight subscales of the SF-36 compared to German normative QOL data. But when compared to a normative group of patients with hearing loss, only two subscales were affected. The alteration of the subscales was correlated with objective and subjective parameters. Vertigo and postoperative hearing status could be identified as the parameters with the strongest influence on QOL.

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Title: Quality of life after microsurgery for vestibular schwannoma via the middle cranial fossa approach
Authors: Matthias Scheich
Christian Ginzkey
Edith Reuter
Wilma Harnisch
Desiree Ehrmann
Rudolf Hagen
Publication date: 01-07-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology / Issue 7/2014
Print ISSN: 0937-4477
Electronic ISSN: 1434-4726
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-013-2671-1

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