Dose and diameter relationships for facial, trigeminal, and acoustic neuropathies following acoustic neuroma radiosurgery

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 215-219

  Flickinger, John C ^a   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a   Lunsford, L Dade ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Radiation injury; Radiosurgery; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 0030474984     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(96)01831-2     Document Type: Article

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