Hearing preservation and facial nerve outcomes in vestibular schwannoma surgery: Results using the middle cranial fossa approach

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 234-241

  Arts, H Alexander ^a,b   Telian, Steven A ^a   El Kashlan, Hussam ^a   Thompson, B Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Facial nerve; Hearing preservation; Middle cranial fossa; Outcomes; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; FACIAL NERVE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEARING; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

AUDIOMETRY, EVOKED RESPONSE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645058659     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000185153.54457.16     Document Type: Review

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