Changes in tinnitus after vestibular schwannoma surgery

Changes in tinnitus after vestibular schwannoma surgery

We designed a prospective study to evaluate changes in tinnitus after vestibular schwannoma (VS) surgery. Subjects included 41 patients who were diagnosed with a VS and underwent translabyrinthine microsurgery (TLM) between January 2015 and May 2016. All patients underwent related examinations and w...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:Scientific reports 2019-02, Vol.9 (1), p.1743-1743, Article 1743
Hauptverfasser: Wang, Jing-Jing, Feng, Yan-Mei, Wang, Hui, Wu, Ya-Qin, Shi, Hai-Bo, Chen, Zheng-Nong, Yin, Shan-Kai
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
692/617
692/699
Humanities and Social Sciences
Microsurgery
multidisciplinary
Schwann cells
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Surgery
Tinnitus
Vestibular system
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:We designed a prospective study to evaluate changes in tinnitus after vestibular schwannoma (VS) surgery. Subjects included 41 patients who were diagnosed with a VS and underwent translabyrinthine microsurgery (TLM) between January 2015 and May 2016. All patients underwent related examinations and were asked to answer the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) scale and a visual analog scale (VAS) of tinnitus severity both pre- and postoperatively. Of the 41 patients, 31 (75.6%) suffered from tinnitus before surgery. Microsurgery was associated with an overall decrease in tinnitus ( p  
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-38582-y