Clinical Study
Complications of Microsurgery of Vestibular Schwannoma
Table 1
Complications of vestibular schwannoma microsurgery.
| Type of complication | Number of patients | % |
| CN VII discontinuity | 31 | 10% | Permanent CN V dysfunction | 3 | 1% | Transient CN V dysfunction | 7 | 2% | CN VI palsy | 1 | 0.3% | Transient CN IX–XI dysfunction | 20 | 6% | Disordered vestibular compensation | 43 | 13% | Lateral variant of CSF leak | 208 | 62.5% | Medial variant of CSF leak | 2 | 0.6% | Headache | 29 | 9% | Intracranial hemorrhage | 12 | 4% | Epidural hematomas | 3 | 1% | Mortality | 3 | 3% |
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CN: cranial nerve.
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