The clinical importance of quality-of-life scores in patients with skull base tumors: A meta-analysis and review of the literature

Current Oncology Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 175-181

  Amit, Moran ^a   Abergel, Avraham ^a   Fliss, Dan M ^a   Gil, Ziv ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anterior skull base surgery questionnaire; Base of skull; Head and neck cancers; Minimal clinically important difference; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR SKULL BASE SURGERY QUESTIONNAIRE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SKULL SURGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84860863873     PISSN: 15233790     EISSN: 15346269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11912-012-0222-3     Document Type: Review

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