Imaging review of the temporal bone: Part I. Anatomy and inflammatory and neoplastic processes

Radiology

Volumn 269, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-33

  Juliano, Amy F ^a   Ginat, Daniel T ^a   Moonis, Gul ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ANATOMY; ANGIOGRAPHY; BELL PALSY; BONE EROSION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE TUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CHOLESTEATOMA; CHORDA TYMPANI; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FACIAL NERVE; GRANULOMA; HERPES ZOSTER OTICUS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INNER EAR DISEASE; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; LABYRINTHITIS; MASTOID; MASTOIDITIS; MENINGIOMA; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL BONE;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEITIS; SKULL NEOPLASMS; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84884693014     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13120733     Document Type: Note

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