Hearing preservation with the retrosigmoid approach for vestibular schwannoma: Myth or reality?

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 397-401

  Lassaletta, Luis ^a   Fontes, Leonardo ^b   Melcon, Enrique ^b   Sarria, Maria Jose ^b   Gavilan, Javier ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURILEMOMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; TINNITUS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA;

EID: 0141958151     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0194-5998(03)00628-4     Document Type: Article

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