Cholesterol Granuloma of the Petrous Apex

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1043-1058

  Gore, Mitchell R ^a   Zanation, Adam M ^a   Ebert, Charles S ^a   Senior, Brent A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol granuloma; Endonasal; Endoscopic; Petrous apex

Indexed keywords

AERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; ENDOSCOPIC MEDIAL TRANSSPHENOID APPROACH; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC TRANSPTERYGOID INFRAPETROUS APPROACH; ENDOSCOPIC TRANSSPHENOIDAL DRAINAGE; ENDOSCOPIC TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; GRANULOMA; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INFRALABYRINTHINE APPROACH; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY LATERALIZATION; MARSUPIALIZATION; MESSERKLINGER APPROACH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PETROUS APEX CHOLESTEROL GRANULOMA; PETROUS BONE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSIGMOID APPROACH; REVIEW; SPHENOIDOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TEMPORAL BONE; TRANSCANAL INFRACOCHLEAR APPROACH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

CHOLESTEROL; ENDOSCOPY; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PETROUS BONE;

EID: 80053504985     PISSN: 00306665     EISSN: 15578259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otc.2011.06.005     Document Type: Review

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