Epidemiology and Natural History of Vestibular Schwannomas

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 257-268

  Stangerup, Sven Eric ^a   Caye Thomasen, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Hearing preservation; Treatment strategy; Tumour growth; Word recognition scoring

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; AGE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; DENMARK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HISTORY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; WORD RECOGNITION; WORD RECOGNITION SCORING;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84859330964     PISSN: 00306665     EISSN: 15578259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otc.2011.12.008     Document Type: Review

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