Imaging of the patulous Eustachian tube: High-resolution CT evaluation with multiplanar reconstruction technique

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 918-923

  Yoshida, Haruo ^a   Kobayashi, Toshimitsu ^b   Takasaki, Kenji ^a   Takahashi, Haruo ^a   Ishimaru, Hideki ^a   Morikawa, Minoru ^a   Hayashi, Kuniaki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Patulous Eustachian tube; Temporal bone CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY TUBE DYSFUNCTION; CARTILAGINOUS TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EAR RECONSTRUCTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL BONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EAR, MIDDLE; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 5644292027     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480410017422     Document Type: Article

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