Current management of head and neck schwannomas

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 117-122

  Moukarbel, Roger V ^a   Sabri, Alain N ^a,b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Management; Rehabilitation; Schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GADOLINIUM;

ANAMNESIS; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE TUMOR; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE DISEASES; NEURILEMMOMA; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 15244340843     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.moo.0000156172.70521.07     Document Type: Review

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