Unexplained extensive skull base and atlas pneumatization: Computed tomographic findings

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 731-733

  Moreira, Bruno ^a   Som, Peter M ^b  

^a Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar   (Portugal)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR; ARTICLE; ATLAS; BAROTRAUMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIVING; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; MALE; MASTOID; MIDDLE EAR PRESSURE; NECK PAIN; OCCIPITAL BONE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SKULL BASE; SPHENOID; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA;

ADULT; AIR; BAROTRAUMA; CERVICAL ATLAS; DIVING; EMPHYSEMA; HUMANS; MALE; NECK PAIN; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKULL BASE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954978255     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 1538361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archoto.2010.108     Document Type: Article

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