Efficacy and complications of microvascular decompression: A review

Neurosurgery Quarterly

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 92-106

  Lovely, Thomas J ^a,b  

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

^b Albany Troy Neurosurgical Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Disabling positional vertigo; Glossopharyngeal neuralgia; Hemifacial spasm; Microvascular decompression; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HEARING LOSS; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NEURALGIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VERTIGO; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0031749826     PISSN: 10506438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013414-199806000-00003     Document Type: Review

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