The "black turbinate" sign: An early MR imaging finding of nasal mucormycosis

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 771-774

  Safder, Sara ^a   Carpenter, J S ^a   Roberts, T D ^a   Bailey, N ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BACTEREMIA; BRAIN TISSUE; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOSCOPY; ETHMOID SINUS; ETHMOIDECTOMY; EVISCERATION; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR RECTUS MUSCLE; MALAISE; MALE; MAXILLARY SINUS; MUCORMYCOSIS; MUSCLE; NASAL BIOPSY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTALGIA; PARESTHESIA; PNEUMONIA; RHINOCEREBRAL MUCORMYCOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SECRETION; SOFT TISSUE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TURBINATE; WEAKNESS; WOUND DRESSING;

AGED; CHILD; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; NOSE DISEASES; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ORBIT EVISCERATION; ORBITAL DISEASES; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; TURBINATES;

EID: 77950808260     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1808     Document Type: Article

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