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Table 2 Surgical features

From: A literature review on surgery for cervical vagal schwannomas

Author

Number of patients

Surgical procedure

Approach

Preoperative symptoms

Vagus resection

Postoperative symptoms

Complete recovery

Hwang [15]

1

Extracapsular resection

Transaxillary

+

+

Ogawa [16]

1

Extracapsular resection

Transcervical

+

+

Yasumatsu [17]

10

5 extracapsular resections

Transcervical

n.r.

n.r.

n.r.

5 intracapsular excisions

Gibber [6]

1

Intracapsular excision

Transcervical

 

Bilancia [18]

1

Intracapsular excision

Transcervical

+

+

Chai [19]

1

Intracapsular excision

Transcervical

+

n.r.

+

Lahoti [3]

4

n.r.

n.r.

n.r.

2 + 2−

n.r.

Lee [9]

1

Extracapsular resection

Transcervical

+

Liu [7]

6

n.r.

n.r.

n.r.

n.r.

n.r.

n.r.

Sreevatsa [20]

3

Intracapsular excision

n.r.

Kim [21]

6

Intracapsular excision

n.r.

1 + 5−

n.r.

Chiofalo [22]

1

Extracapsular resection

Transcervical

+

+

+

Bahayani [24]

1

Debulking

Transcervical

+

+

Peyvandi [4]

1

Extracapsular resection

Transcervical

n.r.

n.r.

Biswas [1]

2

n.r.

n.r.

1 + 1 n.r.

+

+

Kang [25]

6

Intracapsular excision

Transcervical

n.r.

3 + 3−

+

Lagner [2]

3

n.r.

n.r.

n.r.

n.r.

n.r.

n.r.

Moroni [26]

1

Extracapsular resection

Transcervical

+

n.r.

Roh [27]

1

Intracapsular excision

Postauricular

 

Matsuo [23]

1

n.r.

Transcervical

+

+

Ruckert [5]

1

Extracapsular resection

Transcervical

n.r.

+

n.r.

Personal Experience

2

Intracapsular excision

Transcervical

+

1 + 1−

  1. n.r., not reported.