Validation of a disease-specific quality-of-life instrument for acoustic neuroma: The penn acoustic neuroma quality-of-life scale

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1646-1654

  Shaffer, Brian T ^a   Cohen, Michael S ^b   Bigelow, Douglas C ^a   Ruckenstein, Michael J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Instrument; Quality of life; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955917272     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20988     Document Type: Article

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