ABSTRACT
Data in this chapter may be updated by a Medline search using the keywords: randomized controlled trials, meta-analysis, evidence-based medicine, review literature, skull base (focusing on surgery and complications), skull base neoplasms (focusing on surgery and complications), postoperative complications, vestibular schwannoma (focusing on surgery and complications), cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea (focusing on surgery, complications, prevention and control), cerebrospinal fluid otorrhoea (focusing on surgery, complications, prevention and control), CSF lumbar drainage, antibiotic prophylaxis, meningitis (focusing on surgery, complications, prevention and control), electromyography, intraoperative monitoring, facial nerve and facial nerve injuries (focusing on prevention and control), acetazolamide (focusing on adverse effects and therapy), papaverine (focusing on therapy), intracranial hypertension (focusing on therapy), hydrocephalus (focusing on therapy and drug therapy), CSF pressure, therapeutic embolization, meningioma, angiofibroma. In addition, the Cochrane database has also been searched.
