A rare case of a glass foreign body in the parapharyngeal space: Pre-operative assessment by contrast-enhanced CT and three-dimensional CT images

Dentomaxillofacial Radiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 112-115

  Enomoto, K ^a   Nishimura, H ^a   Inohara, H ^a   Murata, J ^a   Horii, A ^a   Doi, K ^a   Kubo, T ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Foreign body; Parapharyngeal space

Indexed keywords

CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CONTRAST MEDIA; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; GLASS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; JUGULAR VEINS; MAXILLARY ARTERY; PAROTID GLAND; PHARYNX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62549160062     PISSN: 0250832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/dmfr/69946733     Document Type: Article

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