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==Medical therapy== | ==Medical therapy== | ||
Main modality of treatments are surgery and radiotherapy | * There is no obvious medical treatment for schwannomas other than managing the symptoms. | ||
* Main modality of treatments are surgery and radiotherapy. | |||
===Radiotherapy=== | ===Radiotherapy=== |
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Maneesha Nandimandalam, M.B.B.S.[2]
Overview
Medical therapy
- There is no obvious medical treatment for schwannomas other than managing the symptoms.
- Main modality of treatments are surgery and radiotherapy.
Radiotherapy
Stereotactic radiotherapy and conventional fractionated radiation therapy can be used.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Lin EP, Crane BT (November 2017). "The Management and Imaging of Vestibular Schwannomas". AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 38 (11): 2034–2043. doi:10.3174/ajnr.A5213. PMC 5690865. PMID 28546250.
- ↑ Persson O, Bartek J, Shalom NB, Wangerid T, Jakola AS, Förander P (June 2017). "Stereotactic radiosurgery vs. fractionated radiotherapy for tumor control in vestibular schwannoma patients: a systematic review". Acta Neurochir (Wien). 159 (6): 1013–1021. doi:10.1007/s00701-017-3164-6. PMC 5425507. PMID 28409393.