Long-term outcomes in patients with vestibular schwannomas treated using gamma knife surgery: 10-Year follow up

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 10-16

  Hasegawa, Toshinori ^a   Kida, Yoshihisa ^b   Kobayashi, Tatsuya ^b   Yoshimoto, Masayuki ^b   Mori, Yoshimasa ^b   Yoshida, Jun ^b  

^a KOMAKI CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Gamma knife surgery; Outcome; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; FACE INJURY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MUSCLE SPASM; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; VESTIBULAR NERVE; ADOLESCENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HEARING DISORDER; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEUROMA; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOSURGERY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 13844297070     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2005.102.1.0010     Document Type: Article

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