A case-case study of mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma risk in Japan

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 85-93

  Sato, Yasuto ^a   Akiba, Suminori ^b   Kubo, Osami ^a   Yamaguchi, Naohito ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Detection bias; Epidemiology; Recall bias

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; TUMORS;

ACOUSTIC NEUROMAS; AVERAGE CALL DURATIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDY; CASE-STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DETECTION BIAS; MOBILE PHONE USE; MOBILE-PHONE USERS; RECALL BIAS; TUMOR LOCATION;

DIAGNOSIS;

ACOUSTIC NEUROMA; ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGEON; PATHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL BIAS; RISK; SOFTWARE; TUMOR VOLUME; ADULT; AGED; EAR; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE PHONE; NEUROMA; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; CELLULAR PHONE; EAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 78651302699     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20616     Document Type: Article

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