Cerebrospinal fluid cytology to aid the diagnosis of cerebellopontine angle tumors

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 553-559

  Eisen, Marc D ^a   Smith, Peter G ^b   Judy, Kevin D ^a   Bigelow, Douglas C ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Midwest Otologic Group   (United States)

^c 5 Ravdin/ORL ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinomatous meningitis; Cerebellopontine angle tumor; Facial weakness

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METASTASIS; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DIZZINESS; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HEARING LOSS, SUDDEN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL PUNCTURE; TINNITUS;

EID: 33745233526     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200606000-00019     Document Type: Article

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