Audiometric outcomes for acoustic neuroma patients after single versus multiple fraction stereotactic irradiation

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 297-300

  McWilliams, Woodrow ^a   Trombetta, Mark ^a,b   Werts, E Day ^a,b   Fuhrer, Russell ^a,b   Hillman, Todd ^a,b  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Radiation; Radiosurgery; Sterotactic

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CRANIAL NERVE TUMOR; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOSURGERY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; RADIOSURGERY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 79955674547     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e318206fdde     Document Type: Article

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