Role for surgery as adjuvant therapy in optic nerve sheath meningioma

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 278-282

  Turbin, Roger E ^a,c   Wladis, Edward J ^a   Frohman, Larry P ^a   Langer, Paul D ^a   Kennerdell, John S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND VISUAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENINGIOMA; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NERVE SHEATH; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; OPTIC NERVE; PAPILLEDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TUMOR BIOPSY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGIOMA; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; PAPILLEDEMA; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 33747142771     PISSN: 07409303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.iop.0000225420.06323.76     Document Type: Article

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