title: Imaging of the temporal bone.
abstract: Computed tomography remains the imaging modality of choice in investigating conductive hearing loss. The improvement of MR imaging surface-coil technology is allowing a number of inflammatory and neoplastic diseases in the temporal bone to be detected more effectively. These two modalities when used correctly will detect many of the soft tissue and bony abnormalities of the temporal bone.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Jabour
mesh_terms: D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed