Use of computed tomography to predict the possibility of exposure of the first genu of the facial nerve via the transmastoid approach

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1180-1184

  Kim, Jin ^a   Kim, Jinna ^a   Park, Sera ^a   Lee, Won Sang ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Decompression; Facial paralysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL BONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GENICULATE GANGLION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052266430     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e318229d495     Document Type: Article

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