Utility of Image Guided Surgery in the Diagnosis of Pterygopalatine Fossa Lesions

Laryngoscope

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 424-427

  Aronsohn, Michael S ^a,c   Stringer, Scott P ^b   Brown, Heather M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Image guided; Pterygopalatine fossa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MAXILLARY SINUS; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGOPALATINE FOSSA; SKULL BASE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH;

AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAXILLARY SINUS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; PALATE; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1642328727     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200403000-00007     Document Type: Article

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