"En-bloc" removal of small- to medium-sized acoustic neuromas with retrosigmoid-transmeatal approach

Skull Base

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-38

  Colletti, Vittorio ^a,b   Fiorino, Francesco ^a   Mocella, Stelio ^a   Carner, Marco ^a   Policante, Zeno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b Policlinico   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NERVE; DRILL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FLOCCULATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0030891906     PISSN: 15315010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1058621     Document Type: Article

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