Hearing preservation in retrosigmoid approach of small vestibular schwannomas: Prognostic value of the degree of internal auditory canal filling

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1469-1472

  Tringali, Stéphane ^a,b   Ferber Viart, Chantal ^a,b   Fuchsmann, Carine ^a   Buiret, Guillaume ^a   Zaouche, Sandra ^a   Dubreuil, Christian ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Hearing preservation; Internal auditory canal; Retrosigmoid approach; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRANIAL NERVE TUMOR; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INNER EAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; EAR, INNER; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 78649496070     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181f7ab47     Document Type: Article

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