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Hearing data over a compatible period on 20 other tumors, which did not receive surgery due to their less aggressive nature, were included for comparison. Surgery was carried out via a retrosigmoid approach with the brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) guide. Immediately after surgery, functional hearing was maintained in 82% of ears. Average hearing scores were better in the non-surgery ears. However, the hearing scores in both groups worsened gradually with a similar dynamic during the 42-month postoperative follow-up period. No accelerated impairment of hearing was evident for the operated cases. Rather, the gap between the two hearing deterioration lines tended to close at the end of the follow-up period. Our result suggested that the BAEP-guided surgery did not cause additional hearing deterioration in the long-term and seemed to slow down hearing deterioration of those tumors that were initially more aggressive.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/cancers11091376","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,17]],"date-time":"2019-09-17T04:23:36Z","timestamp":1568694216000},"page":"1376","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Impact of Surgery on Long-Term Results of Hearing in Neurofibromatosis Type-2 Associated Vestibular Schwannomas"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Isabel","family":"Gugel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"},{"name":"Centre of Neurofibromatosis and Rare Diseases, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Florian","family":"Grimm","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marina","family":"Liebsch","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Julian","family":"Zipfel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"},{"name":"Centre of Neurofibromatosis and Rare Diseases, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"},{"name":"Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christian","family":"Teuber","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lan","family":"Kluwe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, HH, Germany"},{"name":"Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, HH, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Victor-Felix","family":"Mautner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre of Neurofibromatosis and Rare Diseases, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"},{"name":"Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, HH, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marcos","family":"Tatagiba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"},{"name":"Centre of Neurofibromatosis and Rare Diseases, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Martin Ulrich","family":"Schuhmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"},{"name":"Centre of Neurofibromatosis and Rare Diseases, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"},{"name":"Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, BW, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"93","DOI":"10.1097\/00129492-200501000-00016","article-title":"Incidence of vestibular schwannoma and neurofibromatosis 2 in the North West of England over a 10-year period: Higher incidence than previously thought","volume":"26","author":"Evans","year":"2005","journal-title":"Otol. 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