Handheld cellular telephones and risk of acoustic neuroma
- 23 April 2002
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 58 (8), 1304-1306
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.58.8.1304
Abstract
The hypothesis that intracranial energy deposition from handheld cellular telephones causes acoustic neuroma was tested in an epidemiologic study of 90 patients and 86 control subjects. The relative risk was 0.9 (p = 0.07) and did not vary significantly by the frequency, duration, and lifetime hours of use. In patients who used cellular telephones, the tumor occurred more often on the contralateral than ipsilateral side of the head. Further efforts should focus on potentially longer induction periods.Keywords
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