Primary Extracranial Meningioma in the Vicinity of the Temporal Bone: A Benign Lesion Which is Rarely Recognized Clinically

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-7

  Ferlito, Alfio ^a,c   Devaney, Kenneth O ^b   Rinaldo, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b Foote Health System   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EAR NEOPLASMS; EAR, INNER; EAR, MIDDLE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; SKULL NEOPLASMS; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0842330448     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480310014903     Document Type: Editorial

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