Management of facial nerve schwannoma in patients with favorable facial function

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1063-1068

  Lee, Jong Dae ^a   Kim, Sung Huhn ^a   Song, Mee Hyun ^a   Lee, Ho Ki ^a   Lee, Won Sang ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Facial nerve; Facial palsy; Schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE FUNCTION; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURILEMMOMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34249915315     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31804b1a51     Document Type: Article

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