Surgical salvage after failed irradiation for vestibular schwannoma

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 10 I, 2005, Pages 1827-1832

  Friedman, Rick A ^a   Brackmann, Derald E ^a   Hitselberger, William E ^a   Schwartz, Marc S ^a   Iqbal, Zarina ^a   Berliner, Karen I ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic tumors; Radiosurgery; Radiotherapy; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE; HUMAN; INNER EAR; MALE; NERVE FUNCTION; NEURILEMOMA; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; STEREOTAXIC RADIOTHERAPY; STEREOTAXIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSLABYRINTHINE APPROACH; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VESTIBULAR NEURILEMOMA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 26944491792     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000175063.76945.75     Document Type: Article

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