Advantages Of The Translabyrinthine Approach

There are four major approaches (surgeries) that remove these tumors, the standard workhorse is called the translabyrinthine approach. This is the standard way that most of these tumors are removed, the downside of this approach is that it's guaranteed to have complete loss of hearing in the operated ear even a hearing aid will not help rendered. The upside is that there is a slightly lower risk to causing facial paralysis [Arsiwala, 2016]. The translabyrinthine approach starts from behind the ear, a significant portion of the head is shave and the incision is made behind the ear, working through the mastoid bone then through the labyrinth (semicircular canals) which beneath that area is where the brainstem is and where these tumors sit in