Pathology of the Vestibulocochlear Nerve

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 321-346

  Swartz, Joel D ^a  

^a Germantown Imaging Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Hearing loss; Internal auditory canal; Vestibulocochlear nerve

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ANEURYSM; ARACHNOID CYST; ASTROCYTOMA; AUDITORY BRAIN STEM IMPLANT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; FACIAL NERVE SCHWANNOMA; HAMARTOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; INJURY; INNER EAR DISEASE; INTRALABYRINTH HEMORRHAGE; INTRALABYRINTHINE SCHWANNOMA; LABYRINTHITIS; LIPOCHORISTOMA; LIPOMA; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; MENINGIOMA; MENINGITIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SIDEROSIS; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 42949179550     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2008.02.001     Document Type: Review

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