A case of delayed loss of facial nerve function after acoustic neuroma surgery

Zentralblatt fur Neurochirurgie

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 163-166

  Wedekind, Ch ^a   Hildebrandt, G ^a   Klug, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

cerebellopontine angle surgery; delayed facial palsy; hemodilution; steroid therapy; vasospasm

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; VASOSPASM;

BLINKING; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEXAMETHASONE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMODILUTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0029837653     PISSN: 00444251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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