A rare case of jugular foramen schwannoma arising from Jacobson's nerve

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 667-672

  Quaranta, Nicola ^a,b   Cassano, Michele ^a   Giudice, Alessandro Maselli Del ^a   Quaranta, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b Clinica Otorinolaringoiatrica   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE; EARLY CANCER; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; JUGULAR FORAMEN; MALE; MASTOIDECTOMY; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SKULL; TREMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEURILEMMOMA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 34248583275     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480600987834     Document Type: Article

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