Facial nerve palsy: An unusual presenting feature of small cell lung cancer

Case Reports in Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-38

  Yildiz, Ozcan ^a   Buyuktas, Deram ^a   Ekiz, Esra ^b   Selcukbiricik, Fatih ^a   Papila, Irfan ^a   Papila, Cigdem ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GOZTEPE TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Facial nerve metastasis; Facial nerve paralysis; Small cell lung cancer

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ETOPOSIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DYSPHONIA; FACIAL NERVE METASTASIS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 79957619716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16626575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000324182     Document Type: Article

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