Current Challenges and Advancements in Lateral Skull Base Surgery
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Otolaryngology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2026 | Viewed by 1390
Special Issue Editor
Interests: otology; neurotology; lateral skull base; cochlear implant
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Dear Colleagues,
Lateral skull base lesions often require complex surgical removal, and their management is still extremely challenging and takes into account the patient’s age, hearing function, facial nerve and lower cranial nerves’ function and also the surgeon’s preference and experience. Currently, there is still a lack of guidelines even for some of the major lesions of the lateral skull base, mostly due to the rarity of these diseases. One example is the acoustic neuroma, one of the most frequent lateral skull base pathologies that has no definitive management recommendations. In fact, there are conflicting opinions in the literature on when to perform surgery and whether it should be hearing preserving or not, a gross total or subtotal resection, and when gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery should be chosen instead.
This Special Issue will have the task of engaging experts in this field to report their experience in order to contribute to defining the management strategies to be adopted in this specific field of lateral skull base surgery.
Dr. Alessia Rubini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lateral skull base
- neurotology
- jugular foramen
- cerebellopontine angle
- petrous apex
- inner ear
- acoustic neuroma
- jugular paraganglioma
- transtemporal approaches
- infratemporal approaches
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