Relief of hemifacial spasm after radiosurgery for intracanalicular vestibular schwannoma

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 235-237

  Peker, Selçuk ^a,b   Ozduman K ^a   Kilic T ^a   Pamir, M N ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Facial nerve; Hemifacial spasm; Radiosurgery; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; INTRACANALICULAR VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA; MALE; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; RARE DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4544361716     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-818485     Document Type: Article

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