Cochlear implantation in neurofibromatosis type 2 after radiation therapy

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 216-219

  Trotter, Matthew I ^a   Briggs, Robert J S ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cochlear implantation; Hearing; Neurofibromatosis Type 2; Radiation; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; EAR TUMOR; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIP READING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEUROMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COMMUNICATION; EAR NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LIPREADING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77649134884     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181c348e7     Document Type: Article

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