Prognostic factors for the incidence and recovery of delayed facial nerve palsy after vestibular schwannoma resection: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 375-380

  Morton, Ryan P ^a   Ackerman, Paul D ^a   Pisansky, Marc T ^a   Krezalek, Monika ^a   Leonetti, John P ^a   Raffin, Michael J M ^a   Anderson, Douglas E ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial nerve palsy; House Brackmann scale; Resection; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79551710510     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.5.JNS091854     Document Type: Article

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