Facial Nerve Tumors

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 942-947

  Falcioni, Maurizio ^a   Russo, Alessandra ^a   Taibah, Abdelkader ^a   Sanna, Mario ^a  

^a GRUPPO OTOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Facial nerve; Hemangioma; Meningioma; Neurofibroma; Schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL WALL RESORPTION; FACIAL DYSFUNCTION; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; FACIAL NERVE SURGERY; FACIAL NERVE TUMOR; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE RETRACTION POCKET; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242523929     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200311000-00021     Document Type: Review

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