CPA melanoma: Diagnosis and management

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 529-537

  Brackmann, Derald E ^a   Doherty, Joni K ^a  

^a HOUSE CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

CPA melanoma; CPA metastases; CSF cytology; IAC melanoma; Malignant melanoma; Metastatic melanoma; Primary CPA melanoma; Primitive melanoma

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER CELL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FATALITY; HEARING LOSS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34447627514     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/mao.0b013e3180383694     Document Type: Review

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