Management of 1000 vestibular schwannomas (acoustic neuromas): Surgical management and results with an emphasis on complications and how to avoid them

Neurosurgery

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-23

  Samii, Madjid ^a   Matthies, Cordula ^a  

^a NORDSTADT HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Caudal cranial nerves; Complications; Facial nerve; Middle fossa approach; Mortality; Suboccipital approach

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; COCHLEAR NERVE; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; CRANIOTOMY; DEAFNESS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031016604     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199701000-00002     Document Type: Article

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