Spontaneous bilateral intrasphenoidal lateral encephaloceles: CT and MRI findings

Ear, Nose and Throat Journal

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 831-833

  Firat, Ahmet Kemal ^a,c   Firat, Yezdan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOCELE; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RARE DISEASE; SPHENOID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; MENINGOCELE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPHENOID SINUS; TIME;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; ENCEPHALOCELE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGOCELE; MIDDLE AGED; SPHENOID SINUS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 16244416565     PISSN: 01455613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014556130408301215     Document Type: Article

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