Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Biology of Vestibular Schwannoma: The Role of PTEN and microRNA-21
(Francesco Dispenza, MD, PhD, Sebastiano Puglisi, MD, and Angelo Immordino, MD, Istituto Euromediterraneo di Scienza e Tecnologia, Palermo, Italy, and others)

Chapter 2. Clinical Features, Instrumental and Imaging for Diagnosis of Vestibular Schwannoma
(Ignazio La Mantia, MD, PhD, Claudio Andaloro, MD, Veronica Castro, MD, Otolayngology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, Surgical and Advanced Technologies, University of Catania, Catania, Italy)

Chapter 3. Neurofibromatosis Type 2
(Tiziana Fragapane, MD, Emanuela Salzano, MD, Davide Vecchio, MD, PhD, and Maria Piccione, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Centro di Riferimento Regionale per le Malattie Genetiche e Cromosomiche Rare, A.O. Ospedali Riuniti “Villa Sofia-Cervello”, Palermo, Italy, and others)

Chapter 4. Imaging of Vestibular Schwannoma
(Paola Feraco,MD, Silvia Piccinini, MD, Giuseppe Salvaggio, MD, and Cesare Gagliardo, MD, PhD, Department of Radiology, Ospedale S. Chiara, Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari, Trento, Italy, and others)

Chapter 5. Solitary Vestibular Schwannoma: Decision Making of Treatments
(Francesco Dispenza, MD, PhD, Istituto Euromediterraneo di Scienza e Tecnologia, Palermo, Italy, and others)

Chapter 6. Conservative Management of Vestibular Schwannoma
(Elisabetta Zanoletti and Diego Cazzador, Unit of Otolaryngology, Department of Neurosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, and others)

Chapter 7. The Enlarged Translabyrinthine Approach
(Falcioni Maurizio, Iaccarino Ilaria, Canzano Federica and Di Lella Filippo, ENT and Otoneurosurgical Department, Parma University Hospital, Italy)

Chapter 8. The Retrosigmoid Approach: From the Microsurgical Anatomy to the Surgery
(Francesca Graziano, MD, Enrico Lo Bue, Lara Brunasso, MD, Alessia Lombardo, Rosario Maugeri, MD,
Domenico G. Iacopino, MD, PhD, Neurosurgical Clinic, AOUP “Paolo Giaccone”, Postgraduate Residency Program in Neurosurgery, Department of Biomedicine Neurosciences and Advanced Diagnostics, School of Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, and others)

Chapter 9. Middle Fossa Approach for Vestibular Shwannoma: An Overview
(Rosario Maugeri, Giuseppe Roberto Giammalva, Francesca Graziano, Teresa Somma, Carlo Gulì, Mariangela Pino and Domenico Gerardo Iacopino, Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Postgraduate Residency Program in Neurological Surgery, Neurosurgical Clinic, AOUP “Paolo Giaccone”, Palermo, Italy, and others)

Chapter 10. Endoscopic Approach to Vestibular Schwannoma
(Daniele Marchioni, MD, and Davide Soloperto, MD, PhD, ENT Department, AOUI Verona, Verona University, Verona, Italy)

Chapter 11. Radiotherapy for Vestibular Schwannoma
(Gianluca Mortellaro, Giuseppe Ferrera, Francesco Cuccia and Filippo Alongi, Radiation Oncology Unit, ARNAS Ospedale Civico Di Cristina Benfratelli, Palermo, Italy, and others)

Chapter 12. Facial Nerve Restoration after Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery
(S. Taliente, M. Maruccia, R. Guarino, R. Elia, G. Giudice and Nicola Quaranta, Division of Otolaryngology, Department of BMS, Neuroscience and Sensory Organs University of Bari, Bari, Italy, and others)

Chapter 13. Vestibular and Proprioceptive Rehabilitation Strategy in Acoustic Neurinoma
(Valerio Giustino, Federico Sireci, MD, Giulia Letizia Mauro, MD, Giuseppe Messina, MD, Serena Rizzo, MD, and Francesco Martines, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, PhD Program in Health Promotion and Cognitive Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, and others)

Index