Alexandra Borges
Alexandra Borges
The central skull base (CSB) constitutes a frontier between the extracranial head and neck and the middle cranial fossa. The anatomy of this region is complex, containing most of the bony foramina and canals of the skull base traversed by s...
Hemant Parmar,Sachin Gujar,Gaurang Shah et al.
Hemant Parmar et al.
This article briefly discusses the imaging approach to lesions of the anterior skull base. A brief review of normal anatomy and imaging techniques is followed by a discussion about common neoplastic and non-neoplastic pathologies involving ...
Prashant Raghavan,Sugoto Mukherjee,C Douglas Phillips
Prashant Raghavan
A variety of congenital, traumatic, vascular, inflammatory, and neoplastic processes may affect the facial nerve. Prudent use of CT and MR imaging combined with a complete understanding of facial nerve anatomy helps in narrowing the differe...
Magge Lakshmi,Christine M Glastonbury
Magge Lakshmi
Pathologic processes within the cerebellopontine angle (CPA) may present because of mass effect on local structures or on the pons or cerebellum. MR imaging is superior to CT for evaluation of the complete extent of a CPA mass and for chara...
Petrous apex [0.03%]
岩尖区
Ilona M Schmalfuss
Ilona M Schmalfuss
The petrous apex is the most medial portion of the temporal bone that cannot be directly examined on clinical examination. The referring physician completely relies on imaging and radiologic interpretation. Unfortunately, the petrous apex d...
Bert De Foer,Christoph Kenis,Jean-Philippe Vercruysse et al.
Bert De Foer et al.
Tumoral lesions of the temporal bone are relatively rare. Cross-sectional imaging plays an important role in the description of extension of these lesions. In certain lesions, imaging characteristics are rather specific, giving a clue to di...
Marc M Lemmerling,Bert De Foer,Berit M Verbist et al.
Marc M Lemmerling et al.
Inflammatory and infectious diseases of the temporal bone are a major indication to perform high-resolution CT and MR imaging studies. Such studies allow one to evaluate the extent of the disease in the soft tissues and in the bony structur...
Imaging of the mastoid, middle ear, and internal auditory canal after surgery: what every radiologist should know [0.03%]
术后的乳突、中耳和内听道的影像学表现：每位放射科医师应该了解的内容
Timothy L Larson,Mathew L Wong
Timothy L Larson
Interpreting CT or MR imaging examinations performed on patients with a history of middle ear, mastoid, or neurotologic surgery can be challenging. This is greatly simplified by knowing the surgical procedures used and the expected postoper...
Imaging of hearing loss [0.03%]
听力损失的影像学研究
Lubdha M Shah,Richard H Wiggins rd
Lubdha M Shah
In this article, we review the common entities causing the hearing loss and divide these pathologies into conductive hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, and mixed hearing loss. With this format, congenital pathologies are addressed fi...
Vincent Fook-Hin Chong
Vincent Fook-Hin Chong