Surgical outcome and improvement in quality of life after microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasms: A case series assessment using a validated disease-specific scale

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 383-389

  Ray, Dibyendu K ^a   Bahgat, Diaa ^a   McCartney, Shirley ^a   Burchiel, Kim J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemifacial spasm; Microvascular decompression; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DECOMPRESSION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FACE WEAKNESS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND SITE PAIN; WOUND SITE TIGHTNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957803569     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319883     Document Type: Article

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