Table 3.

Summary of the main series published in the literature

Reference	Number of patients	Follow-up (months)	Facial nerve preservation (%)	Cochlear nerve preservation (%)	Tumor control (%)
Iwai et al. [27]	14	32	85.7	NA	79
Park et al. [50]	8	68.8	NA	NA	100
Yang et al. [78]	61	53.7	95	NA	93.5
Fuentes et al. [15]	8	46	87.5	NA	100
Van de Langenberg et al. [69]	50	33.8	94	25 (1/4)	90
Pan et al. [49]	18	57	89	100 (11/11)	100
Iwai et al. [28]	40	66	95	42.9 (6/14)	90
Radwan et al. [53]	22	28	87	NA	100
Present study	32	29	100	76.9 (10/13)	91.6