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Delayed hearing loss after microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm—an unsolved conspiracy of the cochlear apparatus

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Acknowledgments

Constantin Tuleasca and the authors acknowledge the nice contribution of Mia Calin, for providing the artistic figure accompanying this letter. The authors are most grateful.

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Constantin Tuleasca would like to thank Lausanne University Hospital and the University of Lausanne, Faculty of Biology and Medecine for their financial support ("Financement jeune chercheur en recherche clinique").

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  1. Constantin Tuleasca and Razvan Copaciu contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris-Sud, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bicêtre, Service de Neurochirurgie, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

    Constantin Tuleasca, Razvan Copaciu, Viviana Aureli, Nozar Aghakhani & Fabrice Parker

  2. Faculté de Médecine, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

    Constantin Tuleasca

  3. Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Neurosurgery Service and Gamma Knife Center, Rue du Bugnon 44-46, BH-08, CH-1011, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Constantin Tuleasca, Viviana Aureli & Marc Levivier

  4. Medical Image Analysis Laboratory (MIAL) and Department of Radiology-Center of Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Constantin Tuleasca

  5. Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS 5), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Constantin Tuleasca

  6. Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM), University of Lausanne (Unil), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Constantin Tuleasca & Marc Levivier

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Tuleasca, C., Copaciu, R., Aureli, V. et al. Delayed hearing loss after microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm—an unsolved conspiracy of the cochlear apparatus. Acta Neurochir 161, 1599–1601 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-019-03957-7

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