What Is the Real Incidence of Vestibular Schwannoma?

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 216-220

  Tos, Mirko ^a,b   Stangerup, Sven Eric ^a   Cayé Thomasen, Per ^a   Tos, Tina ^a   Thomsen, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEURILEMOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; VESTIBULE;

DENMARK; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0842300312     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.130.2.216     Document Type: Article

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