'A time bomb ticking in my head': Drawings of inner ears by patients with vestibular schwannoma

Clinical Otolaryngology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 183-184

  Kaptein, A A ^a   Zandstra, T ^a   Scharloo, M ^a   Vogel, J J ^b   Broadbent, E ^c   Hughes, B M ^d   Godefroy, W P ^a   van der Mey, A G L ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; DRAWING; EXTERNAL EAR; HUMAN; INNER EAR; LETTER; MEDICAL CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ART; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955160104     PISSN: 17494478     EISSN: 17494486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4486.2011.02264.x     Document Type: Letter

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