Risk-benefit analysis of using the middle fossa approach for acoustic neuromas with >10 mm cerebellopontine angle component

Laryngoscope

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1500-1506

  Satar, Bulent ^a   Jackler, Robert K ^a,b   Oghalai, John ^a   Pitts, Lawrence H ^a,b   Yates, Philip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma); Facial nerve; Hearing preservation; Middle fossa approach

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INNER EAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0036341980     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200208000-00031     Document Type: Article

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