Fluctuating response of a cystic vestibular schwannoma to radiosurgery: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  De Ipolyi, Amy R ^a   Yang, Isaac ^a   Buckley, Anne ^b   Barbaro, Nicholas M ^a   Cheung, Steven W ^a   Parsa, Andrew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cystic vestibular schwannoma; Gamma knife radiosurgery; Microsurgery

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; CYST; HEARING LOSS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; NEUROMA; PATHOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; SECOND CANCER; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CYSTS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSURGERY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 49049086156     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000325880.13494.f2     Document Type: Article

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