title: Diagnostic radiology of the cranial base.
abstract: The skull base is a complex interface for bone, nerves, vessels, and musculature. With knowledge of the underlying anatomy, with an understanding of the strengths of CT and MR imaging, and with a familiarity of the commonest lesions, a rational approach to diagnostic imaging can be made, narrowing the clinical differential diagnosis and simplifying presurgical planning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Abrahams
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Eklund
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002648:Child; D003398:Craniosynostoses / Q000175:diagnosis; D004677:Encephalocele / Q000175:diagnosis; D005910:Glioma / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis; D010001:Osteitis Deformans / Q000175:diagnosis; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D012208:Rhabdomyosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed