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RICHARD W. WAGUESPACK, MD
Birmingham, Ala

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1989;115(12):1415.

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At the 1989 Triological Society meeting in San Francisco, Calif, Dennis S. Poe, MD, Burlington, Mass, C. Gary Jackson, MD, and Michael E. Glasscock, MD, Nashville, Tenn, and Glen D. Johnson, MD, Hanover, NH, presented their results of long-term follow-up for patients who underwent excision of lateral skull-base neoplasms, most being glomus jugulare tumors. Described were their surgical techniques, including the extended facial recess approach (for hearing conservation), the canal-wall-down approach, and the infratemporal fossa approach. These were the procedures used for increasing exposure of more extensive lesions. This retrospective study covered 129 procedures performed on 126 patients, and included a death rate of 4.7%. Much of the information was gleaned from questionnaires. Mean followup of the patient population was 6.7 years. From the questionnaire, approximately 80% were noted to have no useful subjective hearing, but vertigo was a very rare problem with only four patients reporting it. The patient . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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