Anatomy of the eustachian tube as demonstrated by endoluminal ultrasonography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 673-678

  Helweg, Gernot ^a,b   Frauscher, Ferdinand ^a   Sprinzl, Georg M ^a   Gotwald, Thaddäus ^a   Völklein, Claudia ^a   Knapp, Rudolph J ^a   Sögner, Peter F W ^a   Maurer, Herbert ^a   Frede, Thomas E ^a   Zur Nedden, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Cancer Registry of Tyrol   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ear, anatomy; Endoluminal ultrasonography; Eustachian tube

Indexed keywords

CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SPECIMEN PREPARATION; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VISUALIZATION;

ANATOMY; ENDOLUMINAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; MUCOSA; NORMOCEPHALIC CADAVERS; PARATUBAL STRUCTURES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY TUBE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

EID: 10144262626     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1996.15.10.673     Document Type: Article

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