Magnetic resonance imaging based classification of anatomic relationship between the cochleovestibular nerve and anterior inferior cerebellar artery in patients with non-specific neuro-otologic symptoms

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 531-535

  Sirikci, Akif ^a   Bayazit, Yildirim ^b   Ozer, Enver ^a   Ozkur, Ayhan ^a   Adaletli, Ibrahim ^a   Cüce, M Ali ^a   Bayram, Metin ^a  

^a GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anterior inferior cerebellar artery; Cerebellopontine angle; Neurovascular compression; Vestibulocochlear nerve

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; CLASSIFICATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIZZINESS; EAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TINNITUS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIES; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; TINNITUS; VERTIGO; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 30344475271     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-005-0015-6     Document Type: Article

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