766 Endoscopic Surgery for Sporadic Vestibular Schwannoma Resection: A Systematic Review of Surgical Outcomes

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Abstract Introduction Vestibular schwannomas (VS) are benign intracranial tumours originating from the vestibular division of the eighth cranial nerve. The mainstay of their surgical management is microsurgery, other options are radiotherapy or radiological monitoring. Endoscopy (ES) is becoming widely used in neurosurgery and may have a role in improving visualisation and outcomes by enhancing extent of resection, facial nerve, and hearing preservation in VS resection and describe the postoperative outcomes. Method The review was conducted according to the PRISMA guidelines and yielded 31 studies for inclusion. Systematic searches of literature databases were done for studies where endoscopic-assisted and/or endoscopic resection of VS were reported. Results ES facial nerve preservation rates (median 91.3%, range 39.0 - 100%) were comparable to microsurgical treatment. Hearing outcomes were more variable in ES series and were under-reported. A median gross total resection rate of 97.4% (61.0 - 100%) was achieved in the ES series. Conclusions Current data suggest that ES-assisted resection of sporadic VS is not inferior to microsurgical resection with respect to facial nerve outcomes and extent of resection. However, some ES series report poor hearing outcomes, which are under-reported in the literature.