Treatment of glomus jugulare tumors in patients with advanced age: Planned limited surgical resection followed by staged Gamma knife radiosurgery: A preliminary report

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1229-1234

  Willen, Seth N ^a   Einstein, Douglas B ^a,b   Maciunas, Robert J ^a,b   Megerian, Cliff A ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced age; Gamma Knife; Glomus jugulare tumor; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMODECTOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CRANIAL NERVE; EAR SURGERY; EAR TUMOR; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HEARING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAR; OUTPATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TINNITUS; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMUS JUGULARE TUMOR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RADIOTHERAPY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 28144456929     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000176170.41399.fd     Document Type: Article

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