Preoperative vestibular ablation with gentamicin and vestibular 'prehab' enhance postoperative recovery after surgery for pontine angle tumours - First report

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1236-1240

  Magnusson, Måns ^a,b   Kahlon, Babar ^a   Karlberg, Mikael ^a   Lindberg, Sven ^a   Siesjö, Peter ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Prehab; Recovery; Rehabilitation; Schwannoma; Surgery; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; STABILOGRAPHY; TRAINING; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; VERTIGO; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 36448973859     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480701663433     Document Type: Article

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