Cystic vestibular schwannoma: Classification, management, and facial nerve outcomes

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 826-834

  Piccirillo, Enrico ^a   Wiet, Mark R ^b   Flanagan, Sean ^c   Dispenza, Francesco ^d,e   Giannuzzi, Annalisa ^f   Mancini, Fernando ^a   Sanna, Mario ^a  

^a GRUPPO OTOLOGICO   (Italy)

^b Ear Institute of Chicago LLC   (United States)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^e Policlinico Le Scotte ^*  (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Cystic vestibular schwannoma; Facial nerve outcomes; Translabyrinthine approach; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; CYSTIC VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NERVE PARALYSIS; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; CYSTS; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69749091979     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181b04e18     Document Type: Article

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