Development of a cancer-specific anterior skull base quality-of-life questionnaire

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 813-819

  Gil, Ziv ^a   Abergel, Avraham ^b   Spektor, Sergey ^b   Shabtai, Esther ^b   Khafif, Avi ^b   Fliss, Dan M ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anterior cranial fossa; Craniofacial surgery; Oncology; Paranasal sinus; Quality of life; Skull base

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; E-MAIL; EMOTION; EVALUATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JOB PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SKULL BASE TUMOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 2042497996     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2004.100.5.0813     Document Type: Article

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