Use acupuncture to treat the patients who received the surgery of CPA tumor. Acupoints of reference: Yifeng(TE17),Tinggong(SI19),Xiaguan(ST07),Wind Pool(GB20),Outer Pass(SJ5),Union Valley(LI4),Yang Mound Spring(GB34),Leg Three Li(ST36).
Use questionnaires to evaluate.The questionnaires including House-Brackmann Grading Scale,WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan Version,Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy: General(FACT-G),Visual Analogue Scale(VAS).

1.Use questionnaires to evaluate.The questionnaires including House-Brackmann Grading Scale,WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan Version,Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy: General(FACT-G),Visual Analogue Scale(VAS).

Acupuncture

Tumor, Brain

Skull Base Tumor

Cerebellopontine Angle Tumor

Complication of Treatment

Quality of Life

Neuromuscular Blockade

Center for Traditional Medicine, Taipei VGH

Evaluation of Acupuncture Effects for Complications After Surgery of Cerebellopontine Angle Tumor in Skull Base

Evaluate the quality of life after acupuncture treatment, use WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan Version questionnaire. Scale: 0~100, higher scores, better life quality. Counted by each time recording and using mode conversion to get final scale.

measurement for pain,to assess the pain degree. Scale: 0~100 mm, higher scores, higher pain . Counted by each time recording.

Evaluate the quality of life for " the patients of CPA tumor in skull base " after acupuncture treatment,there are four parts,physiology,social and family, emotion,function.Scale: 0~100, higher scores, better life quality. Counted by each time recording and using mode conversion to get final scale.

measurement and evaluate the level for the patients of facial paralysis after surgery of CPA tumor in skull base.Measure the upwards and outwards movement situation of eyebrows and mouth. Each reference point scores 1 point for each 0.25 cm movement, up to a maximum of 1 cm. The scores are then added together, to give a number out of 8.After that, the scale of facial paralysis corresponding to the score was divided into five levels, with the first level being the mildest and the fifth level being the most severe.

Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan

Patient with mass effective brain tumor that undergo non-invasive intracranial pressure measurement

Intracranial Pressure Increase

Non-invasive measurement of intracranial pressure in patients with mass effective brain Tumors

Non-invasive measurement of intracranial pressure

Kantonsspital Aarau

non_invasive_aICP_Tumor

Non-Invasive Measurement of Absolute Intracranial Pressure in Patients With Mass Effective Brain Tumors

The primary outcome is the non-invasive, absolute intracranial pressure (aICP) before brain tumor surgery, as determined by the "NON-INVASIVE ICP ABSOLUTE VALUE METER" in mmHG.

The secondary outcome is to demonstrate correlation between increased aICP and clinical and radiological signs.

Javier Fandino, MD

Skull Base Neoplasms

Assiut University

Skull Base Reconstruction After Endonasal Cranio-endoscopic Resection Using Autologus Grafts

bone window axial, coronal and sagittal cuts to measure preoperative skull base defect size

Coronal, axial and sagittal MRI in T1 and T2 signals measures postoperative tumor, to assess the repaired defect after the surgery

Coronal, axial and sagittal MRI in T1 and T2 signals to assess the repaired defect after the surgery

Coronal, axial and sagittal MRI in T1 and T2 signals to assess the repaired defect after the surgery, recurrence of tumor

identification of possible complication that will occur during resection of skull base and removal of tumors

history of CSF leakage confirmed by endoscopic examination

second surgical intervention to explore the grafted defect

using 4 mm 0-degree endoscope to measure graft condition and visualize any CSF fistula

Coronal, axial and sagittal MRI in T1 and T2 signals measures preoperative tumor size

meningioma/صداع

Evaluation of Acupuncture Effects for Complications After Surgery of Cerebellopontine Angle Tumor in Skull Base

non_invasive_aICP_Tumor

Skull Base Reconstruction After Endonasal Cranio-endoscopic Resection Using Autologus Grafts

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