Facial nerve function after translabyrinthine vestibular schwannoma surgery

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 773-777

  Brackmann, Derald E ^a   Cullen, Robert D ^a   Fisher, Laurel M ^b  

^a HOUSE CLINIC   (United States)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; EAR SURGERY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NERVE FUNCTION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EAR, INNER; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34247471618     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2006.10.009     Document Type: Article

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