An analysis of the retrolabyrinthine vs. the retrosigmoid vestibular nerve section

Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 88-95

  Glasscock, Michael E ^a   Thedinger, Britt A ^b   Cueva, Roberto A ^c   Jackson, C Gary ^a  

^a Otology Group   (United States)

^b BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENIERE DISEASE; NERVE TRANSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIAL SINUSES; EDEMA; ENDOLYMPHATIC DUCT; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMAN; LABYRINTH; MALE; MENIERE'S DISEASE; MIDDLE AGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TINNITUS; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

EID: 0026079176     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/019459989110400116     Document Type: Article

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