Acoustic neuromas: Results of current surgical management

Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 50-60

  Gormley, William B ^a   Sekhar, Laligam N ^b   Wright, Donald C ^c   Kamerer, Donald ^d   Schessel, David ^b  

^a Department of Neurological Surgery ^*  (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Facial nerve; Petrosal approach; Retrosigmoid approach; Translabyrinthine approach; Vestibulocochlear nerve

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROSURGERY; PETROUS BONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VESTIBULAR LABYRINTH; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OTORRHEA; CRANIOTOMY; DEAFNESS; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030953259     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199707000-00012     Document Type: Article

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