title: [MRI of the semicircular canals in cranio-facial asymmetries and craniomandibular syndrome].
abstract: The cranio-mandibular syndrome (CMS) is often secondary to an cranio-facial asymmetry (CFA); it associate a painful masticatory dysfunction syndrome with functional and aching clinical signs in relation with a functional torticollis required for oculo-labyrinthal equilibration maintenance. Our anatomical and functional MRI protocol uses tridimensional study of semi-circular canals (SCC) up relation to the medial cerebral axis (MCA), and permit to measure precisely these CFA and propose, with a multispecialist approach, an adapted treatment of the SCM. Application of MRI to SCC asymmetry looks to its future use for spatial intracranial referencial of cerebral structures.
mesh_terms: D017271:Craniomandibular Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D007758:Ear, Inner / Q000503:physiopathology; D005146:Facial Asymmetry / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology; D011187:Posture; D012665:Semicircular Canals / Q000473:pathology*; D014103:Torticollis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology
vernacular_title: IRM des canaux semi-circulaires dans les asymétries crânio-faciales et le syndrome crânio-mandibulaire.