Gamma knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas: Results of hearing preservation in relation to the cochlear radiation dose

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1076-1081

  Timmer, Ferdinand C A ^a   Hanssens, Patrick E J ^b   Van Haren, Anniek E P ^a   Mulder, Jef J S ^a   Cremers, Cor W R J ^a   Beynon, Andy J ^a   Van Overbeeke, Jacobus J ^b   Graamans, Kees ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CPRLab   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Audiometry; Complications; Gamma knife; Hearing preservation; Radiosurgery; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; NEURILEMOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; STRATEGIC PLANNING; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOSURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; COCHLEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66849106142     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20245     Document Type: Article

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