True incidence of vestibular schwannoma?

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1335-1340

  Stangerup, Sven Eric ^a   Tos, Mirko ^a   Thomsen, Jens ^a   Caye Thomasen, Per ^a  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Age; Epidemiology; Hearing; Sex; Tumor size

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; GROUPS BY SEX; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURILEMOMA; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958495883     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3181f22660     Document Type: Article

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