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Vestibular Schwannomas

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In addition to being the largest series on radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas and even more so for CyberKnife-based radiosurgery, this study provides baseline and long-term follow-up quality of life data. Given excellent local control, low rate of complications, and an increase in long-term quality of life, radiosurgery should be considered a primary treatment option, especially for small- and middle-sized vestibular schwannomas. While complications seem to be more common when irradiating larger tumors, further research is needed to compare complications and quality of life following radiosurgery or neurosurgery for this subgroup.

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Parts of this manuscript have been presented at the annual meeting of German CyberKnife centers in Cologne 2018 and have been published in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science (https://www.cureus.com/articles/25873).

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  1. European CyberKnife Center, Munich, Germany

    Alexander Muacevic, Paul Windisch, Christoph Fürweger, Berndt Wowra & Markus Kufeld

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

    Joerg-Christian Tonn & Christian Schichor

  3. Department of Stereotaxy and Functional Neurosurgery, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Christoph Fürweger

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  1. Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Alfredo Conti

  2. Scientific Director, AB Medica, Milano, Italy

    Pantaleo Romanelli

  3. Assistant Professor, Medical Physics Laboratory, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Evangelos Pantelis

  4. Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University Cancer Center, Stanford, CA, USA

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  5. Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery and Radiosurgery Center, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Young Hyun Cho

  6. Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Michael Lim

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Muacevic, A. et al. (2020). Vestibular Schwannomas. In: Conti, A., Romanelli, P., Pantelis, E., Soltys, S., Cho, Y., Lim, M. (eds) CyberKnife NeuroRadiosurgery . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50668-1_23

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