Quality of life in postoperative vestibular schwannoma patients

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2252-2257

  Cheng, Sheila ^a   Naidoo, Yuresh ^a   Da Cruz, Melville ^a   Dexter, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian Short Form health questionnaire; Quality of life; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEURILEMOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT FORM 36; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TINNITUS; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73449135510     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20217     Document Type: Article

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