Radiological factors related to pre-operative hearing levels in patients with vestibular schwannomas

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1009-1012

  Gerganov, Venelin ^a   Nouri, Mohsen ^b   Stieglitz, Lennart ^a   Giordano, Mario ^a   Samii, Madjid ^a   Samii, Amir ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hearing; Internal auditory canal; Radiological parameters; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EAR TUMOR; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEURILEMOMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGING; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; EAR CANAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 67649961286     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2008.08.029     Document Type: Article

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