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Mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma risk in Japan
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- Published on: 14 May 2007
- Published on: 14 May 2007What can be learned from the Japanese study of mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma?Show More
The Japanese case-control study of acoustic neuroma and mobile phone use (Takebayashi et al. (1)) although thoroughly conduced and analysed has still some important limitations. Acoustic neuroma have long latencies (2, 3). Results of 16 studies published between 1985 and 2000 (4) demonstrated tumour growth in 48-70% of patients, stable tumour volumes in 27-50% and involution in 2-10%. The reason for the diverse patterns of...
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