Are You a Candidate for Suboccipital Craniectomy for Acoustic Neuroma?

A neurosurgeon who is experienced in acoustic neuroma surgery can provide a detailed analysis of your treatment options and whether surgical removal with or without radiotherapy are good options for you. Some factors that your doctor will consider include:

• The size of your acoustic neuroma. Larger tumors are more likely to be causing symptoms and debulking of the tumor may be the best way to provide symptom relief.
• Desire to keep hearing in the affected ear. Other surgeries that use other entryways into the skull have a higher risk of damaging the acoustic nerve.

What Conditions Does Suboccipital Craniectomy Treat?

3 types of surgical procedures are employed to remove acoustic neuromas: suboccipital (retrosigmoid), translabyrinthine, and middle fossa.

A suboccipital craniectomy is a surgery that removes a small piece of the skull found. Suboccipital craniectomies can be performed to decompress cranial nerves to treat facial pain such as

• Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia
• Trigeminal Neuralgia
  Or to remove vestibular schwannomas on the eighth cranial nerve.

Determining whether a minimally invasive endoscopic tumor removal is the right procedure for your acoustic neuroma requires expert evaluation by an experienced neurosurgeon. Our award-winning doctors are part of a multidisciplinary team who stay at the forefront of medical advancements in treatments of brain tumors and other rare or complex brain conditions.