Surgical approach to the internal auditory meatus in acoustic neuroma surgery: Significance of preoperative high-resolution computed tomography

Neurosurgery

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 965-970

  Yokoyama, Tetsuo ^a   Uemura, Kenichi ^a   Ryu, Hiroshi ^a   Hinokuma, Kaoru ^a   Nishizawa, Shigeru ^a   Yamamoto, Seiji ^a   Endo, Mitsutoshi ^a   Sugiyama, Kenji ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Facial nerve; High resolution computed tomography; Internal auditory meatus

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR VOLUME;

FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029851980     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199611000-00017     Document Type: Article

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