Patient, caregiver, and surgeon perceptions of quality of life following anterior skull base surgery

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1276-1281

  Gil, Ziv ^a   Abergel, Avraham ^a   Spektor, Sergei ^a   Khafif, Avi ^a   Fliss, Dan M ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER SURGERY; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SKULL SURGERY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SURGERY;

EID: 8844240596     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.130.11.1276     Document Type: Review

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