Value of echo-planar diffusion-weighted MRI in the detection of secondary and postoperative relapsing/residual cholesteatoma;Utilità della risonanza magnetica con sequenze ecoplanari pesate in diffusione nella diagnosi e nel follow-up dell'otite media cronica colesteatomatosa

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 107, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 556-568

  Stasolla, Alessandro ^a,b   Magliulo, Giuseppe ^a   Lo Mele, Luigi ^a   Prossomariti, Giancarlo ^a   Luppi, Giacomo ^a   Marini, Mario ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cholesteatoma; Ear, abnormalities; Ear, inflammation and infections; Ear, MRI; EPI, DWI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLESTEATOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EAR INFECTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MASTOIDECTOMY; MIDDLE EAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PETROUS BONE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RELAPSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TYMPANOPLASTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHOLESTEATOMA, MIDDLE EAR; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 3142723995     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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