Intracanalicular meningioma: Clinical features, radiologic findings, and surgical management

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 391-399

  Bacciu, Andrea ^a   Piazza, Paolo ^a   Di Lella, Filippo ^a   Sanna, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b GRUPPO OTOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Internal auditory canal; Meningioma; Radiologic findings; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; INTRACANALICULAR MENINGIOMA; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; NERVE FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; EAR NEOPLASMS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VESTIBULAR AQUEDUCT;

EID: 34247232110     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31803261b4     Document Type: Article

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