Identification of offending vessels in trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm using SPGR-MRI and 3D-TOF-MRA

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 544-550

  Niwa, Yoshikazu ^a,b   Shiotani, Masahiro ^a   Karasawa, Hidetake ^a   Ohseto, Kiyoshige ^a   Naganuma, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a Kanto Teishin Hospital   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D TOF MRA; hemifacial spasm; neurovascular compression; SPGR MRI; trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPASM; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 0029837457     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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