Calcification in vestibular schwannoma: Report of two cases and review of the literature

Neurology India

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 642-645

  Gopalakrishnan, C V ^a   Shrivastava, Adesh ^a   Nair, Suresh ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY CANAL; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE DURATION; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FACIAL NUMBNESS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HEART INFARCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; LEFT RETROMASTOID SUBOCCIPITAL CRANIECTOMY; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; TEMPERATURE; TOUCH; TUMOR CALCINOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053401208     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.84364     Document Type: Letter

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