Editorial. Decision-making in the surgical management of a vestibular schwannoma: when timing is everything (cum sincere omnia)

Gabriela Vergara Olmos MD1, Sasan Dabiri MD, MSc1, and John Rutka MD, FRCSC1
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  • 1 Division of Otology/Neurotology, Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Online Publication Date:
15 Oct 2021
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1285–1286
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Volume 136: Issue 5
DOI link:
https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.5.JNS21981
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Volume 136: Issue 5 (May 2022)

in Journal of Neurosurgery

Illustration from Serrato-Avila (pp 1410–1423). Copyright Johns Hopkins University, Art as Applied to Medicine. Published with permission.

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Contributor Notes

Correspondence John Rutka: john.rutka@uhn.ca.

INCLUDE WHEN CITING Published online October 15, 2021; DOI: 10.3171/2021.5.JNS21981.

Disclosures The authors report no conflict of interest.

ACCOMPANYING ARTICLE DOI: 10.3171/2021.4.JNS21465.

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