Currently, there are numerous ways of approaching cerebellopontine masses. Operators aiming to remove these masses should choose a method considering the size and the position of the masses. Historically, in select of normal hearing patient, surgical approaches sacrificing the patient’s hearing was avoided. However nowadays, safe plugging of semicircular canals is feasible and partial labyrinthectomy is successfully done preserving patient s hearing at the same time. So called transcrusal approach is not widely used so far, moreover on our acknowledgement there was no case reported removing cerebellopontine angle mass through this method in Korea yet. We report a case of 28 year old male patient with cerebellopontine angle caverneous malformation, removed by transcrusal approach while preserving the patient s hearing and having no further complications.
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