The temporal bone. Contemporary diagnostic dilemmas.
The entire topic of temporal bone imaging cannot be addressed in a single article. This article discusses the clinical areas in which there have been particularly important advances: inflammatory disease, sensorineural hearing deficit, pulsatile tinnitus, facial nerve dysfunction, and the postoperative temporal bone. The common thread linking those sections is an attempt to emphasize their pitfalls.
Swartz
J D
JD
Department of Imaging Services, Germantown Hospital and Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Harnsberger
H R
HR
Mukherji
S K
SK
D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005155:Facial Nerve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008417:Mastoiditis / Q000175:diagnosis; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000175:diagnosis; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed