Microanatomy of the cerebellopontine angle and internal auditory canal: Study with new magnetic resonance imaging technique using three-dimensional fast spin echo

Neurosurgery

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 561-567

  Mitsuoka, Hideyuki ^a   Arai, Hajime ^a   Tsunoda, Akira ^a   Okuda, Osamu ^a   Sato, Kiyoshi ^a   Makita, Junichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellopontine angle; Microanatomy; Minimum intensity projection; MRI; Three dimensional fast spin echo

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FACIAL NERVE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0032981192     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199903000-00069     Document Type: Article

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