| Abbreviations | Full Name |
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| VS | Vestibular Schwannoma |
| PROSPERO | International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| NOS | Newcastle–Ottawa Scale |
| OR | Odds Ratio |
| CI | Confidence Interval |
| IAC | Internal Auditory Canal |
| FN | Facial Nerve |
| n.m. | Not Mentioned |
| EC | Extra-Canalicular |
| IC | Intra-Canalicular |
| Idmn | Inverse Difference Moment Normalization |