title: The temporal bone. Contemporary diagnostic dilemmas.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Imaging Services, Germantown Hospital and Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Swartz
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Harnsberger
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Mukherji
mesh_terms: 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