Differentiation between cerebellopontine angle tumors in cancer patients

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 975-979

  Huang, Tsung Wei ^a   Young, Yi Ho ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cerebellopontine angle tumor; Colon cancer; Metastasis; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TINNITUS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERTIGO; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; COLON TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDERMOID CYST; MENIERE DISEASE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CANCER; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; NEUROMA; PATHOLOGY; PONS ANGLE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPIDERMAL CYST; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENIERE'S DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; TINNITUS;

EID: 0036834576     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200211000-00027     Document Type: Article

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