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− | − |