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The retrolabyrinthine approach does not impair the labyrinth and allows postoperative hearing preservation. Previously, we reported an endoscope-assisted retrolabyrinthine approach under reinforced continuous intraoperative monitoring for preservation of hearing and facial nerve function. However, the hearing preservation rate was relatively low in patients with long-wave V latency in the auditory brainstem response or poor otoacoustic emission response under this approach. Thus, the hearing preservation rate in such patients remains to be improved. To overcome this limitation, we modified the previous approach. In 26 of the 33 consecutive cases (79%) over the last three years, preservation of hearing equivalent to that before surgery or improved hearing was achieved. Postoperative deafness was observed in only two of the 33 cases (6%). According to previous reports, the rate of hearing preservation using the retrolabyrinthine approach is approximately 30\u201350%. Therefore, we have achieved a higher hearing preservation rate than that previously reported using the endoscopy-assisted retrolabyrinthine approach under reinforced continuous intraoperative monitoring. These improvements in our department are considered to be helpful for hearing preservation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diagnostics13020275","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,12]],"date-time":"2023-01-12T02:28:44Z","timestamp":1673490524000},"page":"275","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery with Endoscope-Assisted Retrolabyrinthine Approach under Modified Reinforced Continuous Intraoperative Monitoring for Hearing Preservation: Experience of 33 Cases in a Single Center"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0331-3670","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Makoto","family":"Hosoya","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Takanori","family":"Nishiyama","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Takeshi","family":"Wakabayashi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4880-3676","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marie N","family":"Shimanuki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hidemi","family":"Miyazaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hiroyuki","family":"Ozawa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8204-9518","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Naoki","family":"Oishi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"376","DOI":"10.1258\/0022215011907910","article-title":"Nerve origin of the acoustic neuroma","volume":"115","author":"Komatsuzaki","year":"2001","journal-title":"J. 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