Intracranial facial nerve neurinoma: Surgical strategy of tumor removal and functional reconstruction

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 538-546

  Yamaki, Toshiaki ^a   Morimoto, Shigefumi ^a   Ohtaki, Masafumi ^b   Sakatani, Kaoru ^a   Sakai, Jun ^a   Himi, Tetsuo ^a   Harabuchi, Yasuaki ^a   Tanabe, Sumiyoshi ^a   Hashi, Kazuo ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b S ^*

Author keywords

Facial nerve; Nerve graft; Neurinoma; Surgery; Tympanoplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVE GRAFT; NEURINOMA; PROGNOSIS; RADIOLOGY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANOPLASTY;

EID: 0032080368     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(97)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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