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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to screen patients at risk for vestibular schwannoma (VS). These MRIs are costly and have an extremely low yield; only 3% of patients in… Click to show full abstract
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to screen patients at risk for vestibular schwannoma (VS). These MRIs are costly and have an extremely low yield; only 3% of patients in the screening population has an actual VS. It might be worthwhile to develop a test to predict VS and refer only a subset of all patients for MRI.
Keywords:
vestibular schwannoma;
potential savings;
diagnosis vestibular;
schwannoma;
savings diagnosis
Journal Title: Clinical Otolaryngology
Year Published: 2018
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Journal Title: Clinical Otolaryngology
Year Published: 2018
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