Sponsor post - UT Southwestern

UT Southwestern is the only center in Texas – and one of just two in the U.S. – to offer invisible acoustic neuroma surgery (transpromontorial approach), an innovative, minimally invasive procedure to remove these non-cancerous tumors through a tiny incision in the ear canal. Aptly named, this procedure eliminates visible scarring.

Lloyd Griffith relished hearing the rumble of cars​ until the day a tumor in his ear caused his hearing to go from garbled to silent. Today his hearing is much improved, thanks to a pioneering minimally invasive procedure at UT Southwestern – one of the highest-volume acoustic neuroma programs in Texas.

Candidates for invisible acoustic neuroma surgery are patients with a small tumor that is symptomatic or growing, and who have poor hearing in the affected ear. In this procedure, we make a small incision in the ear canal and remove a small amount of bone to extract the tumor; the approach leaves no visible scarring behind the ear or in the scalp. 

Read more about UT Southwestern and their acoustic neuroma team here.

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