Preservation of function in vestibular schwannoma surgery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 2 SUPPL.1, 2007, Pages

  Gharabaghi, Alireza ^a,b   Samii, Amir ^a   Koerbel, Andrei ^a,b   Rosahl, Steffen K ^c   Tatagiba, Marcos ^b   Samii, Madjid ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Operative technique; Retrosigmoid approach; Suboccipital approach; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CANCER SURGERY; FACIAL NERVE; HUMAN; MICROSURGERY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33846975774     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000249245.10182.0D     Document Type: Article

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