To estimate the direct costs associated with facial nerve rehabilitation for patients with facial paralysis after vestibular schwannoma (VS) resection.
✦ The floor
Discussion
Signed responses from readers of the wire.
No actionable change for audiologists; findings inform surgical counseling and health economics for vestibular schwannoma teams, not audiology clinical practice.
Facial paralysis is a significant quality-of-life complication of vestibular schwannoma resection, and quantifying rehabilitation costs supports shared decision-making, insurance advocacy, and surgical outcome benchmarking.
- 01Cost analysis of direct expenses for facial nerve rehabilitation after vestibular schwannoma resection.
- 02Facial paralysis is a known complication of acoustic neuroma surgery.
- 03Published in Journal of Neurological Surgery B (2026).
- 04Economic data can inform pre-surgical counseling on potential downstream costs.
- 05Relevant primarily to neurotology and health-economics audiences.
Facial nerve rehabilitation after vestibular schwannoma resection incurs quantifiable direct costs that can be estimated.
studysupported- PMID
- 42626734
- DOI
- 10.1055/a-2724-4037.
- Journal
- Journal of Neurological Surgery B
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 4
- Population
- Patients who developed facial paralysis following vestibular schwannoma resection
- Intervention
- Facial nerve rehabilitation programs post-vestibular schwannoma surgery
Primary outcomes
Direct costs of facial rehabilitation; Cost components of post-surgical facial nerve care