When is the vestibular aqueduct enlarged? A statistical analysis of the normative distribution of vestibular aqueduct size

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1133-1138

  Vijayasekaran, S ^a   Halsted, M J ^a   Boston, M ^a   Meinzen Derr, J ^a   Bardo, D M E ^b   Greinwald, J ^a   Benton, Corning ^a,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL BONE; VESTIBULAR AQUEDUCT ENLARGEMENT; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULE AQUEDUCT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VESTIBULAR AQUEDUCT;

EID: 34250866132     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0495     Document Type: Article

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