The effect of age on acoustic neuroma surgery outcomes

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 473-477

  Oghalai, John S ^a   Buxbaum, James L ^a   Pitts, Lawrence H ^a   Jackler, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Hearing preservation; Middle fossa approach; Skull base surgery; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SKULL BASE; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038476002     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200305000-00020     Document Type: Article

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