Pulsatile tinnitus and the intrameatal vascular loop: Why do we not hear our carotids?

Neurosurgery

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1213-1217

  De Ridder, Dirk ^a   De Ridder, Leo ^b   Nowé, Vicky ^a   Thierens, Hubert ^b   Van De Heyning, Paul ^a   Møller, Aage ^c  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid; Cochleovestibular compression syndrome; Intrameatal vascular loop; Microvascular compression; Microvascular decompression; Pulsatile tinnitus; Tinnitus

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; COCHLEA; EAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; INTRAMEATAL VASCULAR LOOP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLITEF IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE TINNITUS; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL BONE; TINNITUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EAR, INNER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PETROUS BONE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RECURRENCE; TEMPORAL BONE; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEINS;

EID: 29244446261     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000186035.73828.34     Document Type: Article

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