Relationship of Petrous Temporal Bone Pneumatization to the Eustachian Tube Lumen

Laryngoscope

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 656-660

  Jen, Albert ^a   Sanelli, Pina C ^a   Banthia, Vishal ^a   Victor, Jonathan D ^a   Selesnick, Samuel H ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Eustachian tube; Peritubal; Petrous temporal bone; Pneumatization

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY TUBE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PETROUS BONE; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TEMPORAL BONE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; HISTOLOGY; NEUROMA; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; HUMANS; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; PETROUS BONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1842505693     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200404000-00011     Document Type: Review

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