Development of a disease-specific quality-of-life questionnaire for anterior and central skull base pathology-The skull base inventory

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1933-1942

  De Almeida, John R ^a,c   Vescan, Allan D ^a   Gullane, Patrick J ^a   Gentili, Fred ^a   Lee, John M ^a   Lohfeld, Lynne ^c   Ringash, Jolie ^b   Thoma, Achilles ^c   Witterick, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

endoscopic; open; Quality of life; questionnaire; skull base surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; SKULL BASE INVENTORY; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SKULL SURGERY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; CRANIAL FOSSA, ANTERIOR; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SKULL BASE; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84865650471     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23426     Document Type: Article

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