Conservative management of vestibular schwannoma-a prospective cohort study: Treatment, symptoms, and quality of life

Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1072-1080

  Breivik, Cathrine Nansdal ^a   Varughese, Jobin K ^b   Wentzel Larsen, Tore ^a   Vassbotn, Flemming ^a,b   Lund Johansen, Morten ^a,b  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT FORM 36; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; VERTIGO;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; NORWAY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860293766     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31823f5afa     Document Type: Article

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